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
[393] Will. Poitiers (Duchesne, _Hist. Norm. Scriptt._), p.
182. Will. Malm. _Gesta Reg._, l. iii. c. 231 (Hardy, p. 395).
Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1037 (as above, pp. 392, 393); Chronn. S.
Albin. and S. Serg. a. 1032 (_ib._ pp. 23, 135). On the date
see note D at end of chapter.
[394] Chronn. S. Albin. and S. Serg. a. 1032 (Marchegay,
_Eglises_, pp. 23, 135).
[395] See note D at end of chapter.
[396] Chronn. S. Albin. a. 1032, 1033 (Marchegay, _Eglises_,
p. 23); S. Serg. a. 1028 (_ib._ p. 135); Rain. Andeg. a.
1036, 1037 (_ib._ p. 11). The Chron. S. Albin. a. 1033, says:
“Gaufridus ... Willelmum comitem Pictavorum sumpsit in bello;
quare orta est discordia inter patrem et filium.” Labbe in his
_Bibl. MSS. Librorum_ printed this “patrem et _matrem_,” and
thereby originated a perfectly groundless story of a quarrel
between Fulk and Hildegard.
[397] Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1037 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 392,
393).
[398] Hermann. Contract., a. 1043 (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol.
xi. p. 19). Chronn. S. Albin. and S. Serg. ad ann. (Marchegay,
_Eglises_, pp. 24, 135, 136). The Chron. S. Maxent. (_ib._ p.
398) dates the marriage vaguely “per hæc tempora” under 1049.
[399] Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1044 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 394,
395). It seems quite plain that the elder boy’s baptismal name
was Peter, but he signs his charters “William” (see Besly,
_Comtes de Poitou, preuves_, pp. 314, 317). The Chron. S.
Maxent. a. 1058 (as above, p. 400) calls him “Willelmus qui et
Petrus, cognomento Acer.” In recording the birth of the two
boys (a. 1023, _ib._ p. 388) the same writer calls them “Petrum
cognomine Acerrimum, et Gaufredum qui et Wido vocatus est”; and
he afterwards speaks of the latter by both names indifferently.
It seems however to have been an established rule that the
reigning duke of Aquitaine must be officially called William;
for Guy-Geoffrey also assumed the name when he succeeded his
brother in 1058.
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