Note 502 — Chapter IV · ANJOU AND NORMANDY. 1044–1128.

Ord. Vit. (Duchesne, Hist. Norm. Scriptt.), p. 532. The story is somewhat suspicious, because Orderic tells it not in its proper place, but in a sort of summary of Cenomannian history, introductory to the war of 1073; so that it looks very much like a confused anticipation of the treaty of Blanchelande (see below, p. 223). Still there is nothing intrinsically impossible in it, and I do not feel justified in rejecting it without further evidence.