die,[487] and set the Angevin count free for one last struggle with William of Normandy. [481] Chron. Brioc. ad ann. (Morice, _Hist. Bret., preuves_, vol. i. col. 35). [482] Fulk Rechin mentions among his uncle’s wars one “cum Hoello comite Nannetensi.” Marchegay, _Comtes_, p. 378. [483] Chron. S. Michael. a. 1056 (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. xi. p. 29). Chron. Kemperleg. a. 1057 (_ib._ p. 371). [484] Chronn. Vindoc. and S. Maxent. a. 1057 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, pp. 167, 399). The Chron. Britann. in Morice (_Hist. Bret., preuves_, vol. i. col. 101) records this affair under the year 1040; but on that chronicle’s own showing Hoel was not count of Nantes till 1051, while the Chron. Brioc. (_ib._ col. 36) places his succession in 1054. [485] The last charter signed by Agnes as countess of Anjou is dated 1050 (Mabille, Introd. _Comtes_, p. lxxxiii). From 1053 onwards she reappears at the court of her elder son--generally by the title of “mater comitum”--witnessing his charters, founding churches in Poitou, and in short holding her old place as duchess of Aquitaine, while her place as countess of Anjou is taken by Grecia, widow of Berlay of Montreuil, and mother of Eustachia, the wife of Agnes’s stepson William the Fat. See _Hist. S. Flor. Salm._ (Marchegay, _Eglises_), p. 293, and Besly, _Comtes de Poitou_, p. 89. [486] See a charter of our Lady of Charity (Ronceray) quoted in note to _Hist. S. Flor. Salm._ as above. [487] Chron. S. Maxent. a. 1058 (Marchegay, _Eglises_, p. 400).