Note 588 — Chapter IV · ANJOU AND NORMANDY. 1044–1128.
Reading edition
This seems to be the meaning of Will. Malm. Gesta Reg., l. v. c. 419 (Hardy, p. 652); “Quin et Ierosolymam Fulco ire contendens, comitatum commendavit regi suum, si viveret; futurum profecto generi, si non rediret.” The “county” in question can only be Maine, of the gift of which to the Ætheling at his marriage William has just been speaking.