[Footnote 4: ROGER DE VIEILLES, not Villers,--nor Veules, as often written, owing to incorrect translation of the latin title, de Vetulis,--son of Humfry of the same name, who is stated to have died at Preaux, 1074. Vieilles is a small commune in the canton of Beaumont, arrondissement of Bernay; where the family appears to have been established before the building the castle, which still bears the name of Roger. Roger is below, and usually, stiled DE BEAUMONT or BELLOMONT. He could not have been very old at the conquest, (if Wace is to be understood as so asserting), for he lived till thirty years after. His son Robert became earl of Leicester on the grant of Hen. I.; having been adult, and distinguished himself at Hastings, according to _William of Poitiers_. See our subsequent note, and Ellis's _Domesday_, i. 380.] [Footnote 5: Beaumont-le-Roger on the Rille.] [Footnote 6: Historians have not mentioned an uterine sister of William, called Muriel. We remarked, at p. 45, their error as to Adelidis, usually so reckoned; but who, as we have seen, was of the _whole_ blood, and married Enguerran, count of Ponthieu; not Odo of Champagne, who, in fact, married her daughter. The mistakes hitherto prevailing as to Adelidis, render us less averse to suspect others of the same sort among the genealogists; and Wace's account of Muriel is confirmed from other sources. It would seem to have been to her, then a widow--ad Muriel sancti-monialem--sister of Odo, bishop of Bayeux--and therefore sister, or more properly half-sister of Adelidis, that the poet Serlon, the canon of Bayeux, (as to whom see _Wace_, ii. 235, 393) addressed his verses _de captâ Bajocensium civitate_. The baron here called Iwun-al-Chapel seems to be EUDO DE CAPELLO--du manteau, or capuchon--son of Turstain Halduc and Emma his wife, and subscribing himself Eudo Haldub in a charter of 1074. _Mém. Ant. Norm_. viii. 436. He was dapifer to duke William; although not the Eudo dapifer of _Domesday_, who was son of Hubert de Rie. He was the head of the house of Haie-du-Puits in the Cotentin, and undoubtedly married a Muriel, as appears by the charters of Lessay, whether she were a daughter of Herluin or not. The estates of Eudo went to his nephew, which confirms Wace's account of his having no issue. See the Lessay charters in _Dugdale_ and _Gallia Christiana_, and our subsequent note on Haie.] [Footnote 7: Wace does not name the place of meeting of this great council. _William of Malmesbury_ informs us that it was at Lillebonne; where the remains of the ancient castle still exist; see the roofless hall in our vignette above, at p. 101.]