always ready to give help to any Norman rebels. … And the other neighbouring princes were jealous of him as well as the King. His neighbours in Britanny, Anjou, Chartres, and Ponthieu, were all against him. But the great Duke was able to hold his own against them all, and before long to make a great addition to his dominions." Between 1053 and 1058 the French King invaded Normandy three times and suffered defeat on every occasion. In 1063 Duke William invaded the county of Maine, and reduced it to entire submission. "From this time he ruled over Maine as well as over Normandy," although its people were often in revolt. "The conquest of Maine raised William's power and fame to a higher pitch than it reached at any other time before his conquest of England." _E. A. Freeman, Short History of the Norman Conquest, chapter 4._ ALSO IN: _E. A. Freeman, History of the Norman Conquest, chapter 8._ _Sir F. Palgrave, History of Normandy and England, book 2, chapter 4._ {2366} NORMANDY: A. D. 1066. Duke William becomes King of England. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1042-1066; 1066; and 1066-1071. NORMANDY: . D. 1087-1135. Under Duke Robert and Henry Beauclerc. See ENGLAND: A. D. 1087-1135. NORMANDY: A. D. 1096. The Crusade of Duke Robert. See CRUSADES: A. D. 1096-1099. NORMANDY: A. D. 1203-1205. Wrested from England and restored to France. See FRANCE: A. D. 1180-1224; and ENGLAND: A. D. 1205. NORMANDY: A. D. 1419. Conquest by Henry V. of England. See FRANCE: A. D. 1417-1422. NORMANDY: A. D. 1449. Recovery from the English. See FRANCE: A. D. 1431-1453. NORMANDY: 16th Century. Spread of the Reformation. Strength of Protestantism. See FRANCE: A. D. 1559-1561. ----------NORMANS: Start-------- NORMANS. NORTH MEN: Name and Origin.