Note 472 — Chapter IV · ANJOU AND NORMANDY. 1044–1128.
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Will. Jumièges, l. vii. c. 18. (Duchesne, Hist. Norm. Scriptt., p. 276). Cf. Will. Malm. Gesta Reg., l. iii. c. 231 (Hardy, p. 396). These two writers ignore the king’s share in the quarrel, and make it arise solely from Geoffrey’s raids upon Normandy (“Brachium levabat in nos quo non leviter sese vulnerabat,” remarks W. Poitiers, as above). The Gesta Cons. (Marchegay, Comtes, p. 131) reverse the whole situation and assert that William attacked the count of Maine, whereupon Geoffrey, as the latter’s “auxiliator et tutor,” took up the quarrel, and did William a great deal of damage! Fulk Rechin (Marchegay, Comtes, p. 378) wisely limits himself to the statement that his uncle “had a war with William, duke of the Normans.”