England under the Angevin Kings, Volumes I and IINorgate, Kate
History
England under the Angevin Kings, Volumes I and II
Norgate, Kate
Anjou, House of; England -- Civilization -- 1066-1485; Great Britain -- History -- Angevin period, 1154-1216
[263] The _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_, pp. 67, 75) say
that Ingelger, Fulk the Red and Fulk the Good were all buried
in S. Martin’s. Fulk Rechin (Marchegay, _Comtes_, p. 376) says
the place of their burial is unknown to him. The statement of
the later writers therefore is mere guess-work or invention;
but in the case of Fulk the Good it is probably right.
[264] _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), pp. 73, 74.
[265] R. Diceto (Stubbs), vol. i. p. 149.
Whatever may be the origin of the prophecy, however, it was in the
reign of Fulk’s son and successor Geoffrey Greygown that the first
steps were taken towards its realization. Legend has been as busy with
the first Geoffrey of Anjou as with his father; but it is legend of
a very different kind. The epic bards of the marchland singled out
Geoffrey for their special favourite; in their hands he became the hero
of marvellous combats, of impossible deeds of knightly prowess and
strategical skill, of marvellous stories utterly unhistoric in form,
but significant as indications of the character popularly attributed
to him--a character quite borne out by those parts of his career which
are attested by authentic history. Whatever share of Fulk’s more
refined tastes may have been inherited by either of his sons seems to
have fallen to the second, Guy, who early passed into the quiet life of
the monk in the abbey of S. Paul at Corméri in Touraine.[266] The elder
was little more than a rough, dashing soldier, whose careless temper
shewed itself in his very dress. Clad in the coarse grey woollen tunic
of the Angevin peasantry,[267] Geoffrey Greygown made himself alike by
his simple attire and by his daring valour a conspicuous figure in the
courts and camps of King Lothar and Duke Hugh.
[266] _Gall. Christ._, vol. xiv. col. 258.
[267] “Indutus tunicâ illius panni quem Franci Grisetum vocant,
nos Andegavi Buretum.” _Gesta Cons._ (Marchegay, _Comtes_), p.
81.
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