When the other Norman barons saw that the duke had obtained the upper hand of them all, they delivered hostages to keep the peace, and did fealty and homage to him. They obeyed him as their lord, and pulled down the new castles, and willingly or unwillingly rendered their service. He seized Grimoult del Plesseiz, and put him in prison at Rouen; and he had very good cause for so doing; for Grimoult would have murdered him traitorously, as we have said, at Valognes, had not Golet the fool given him warning. Grimoult confessed the felony, and accused of fellowship in it a knight called Salle[27], who had Huon for his father. Salle offered to defend himself from the charge, and a single combat was thereupon arranged between them; but when the appointed day came, Grimoult was found dead in the prison. It occasioned great talk; and he was buried, chained as he was, with the irons on his legs. At Bayeux, when the church was dedicated, part of Grimoult's lands was granted to Our Lady the Blessed Mary; and part divided in the abbey, to each his share[28]. [Footnote 1: Rouen, and the district attached.] [Footnote 2: The pays de Lisieux. Oismeiz is the pays d'Exmes.] [Footnote 3: Argences and Mezidon, both situate in the pays d'Auge.] [Footnote 4: Laison.] [Footnote 5: All the topographical details concerning this battle of Val-des-dunes are stated to be perfectly correct, and to show Wace's acquaintance with the neighbourhood.] [Footnote 6: A small district, of which Harcourt-Thury is the principal place.] [Footnote 7: Valmeray, near Croissanville.] [Footnote 8: 'Li cumunes,' the troops brought by the barons from their villages and towns. See the very curious passage in _Wace_, vol. i. page 307, as to another sense of 'cumune,' in his account of the popular insurrection against Duke Richard II.] [Footnote 9: One of the greatest proprietors in Normandy: we shall find his son subsequently, as one of those present at Hastings.] [Footnote 10: Tuit aloent lances levées Et en totes guimples fermées. M. Pluquet in his notes interprets guimples as 'cornettes de taffetas attachées à la lance:' for which purpose the knights may have already learned to adopt the colours or tokens of their ladies.] [Footnote 11: 'Thor-aide,' according to M. Pluquet, which he considers may have been derived from the ancient North-men. Another MS. reads 'Turie:' and M. Le Prevost considers the latter to be the true reading, and that the cry was really Thury, and most probably referred to the chief seat of Raol Tesson.] [Footnote 12: Congnoissances u entre-sainz, De plusors guises escuz painz.] [Footnote 13: The cry of Saint Sever! has been noticed in a preceding note.] [Footnote 14: The church of the commune called le vieux Thorigny is stated to have been dedicated to St. Amand; but see the observations in _Mém. Ant. Norm_. v. 221.]