Note 10 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)

I will not follow Mr Howlett in his lengthy argument relative to the knighting of Eustace and Henry, because he himself admits that it is based only on conjecture.10 It is sufficient to observe that if the 'romantic' narrative in the Gesta refers to the events of 1149,11 then the knighting of Eustace, which is a pendant to that narrative, belongs, as the other chroniclers assert, to 1149. The statement, I may add, that Henry applied for help to his mother, by no means involves, as Mr Howlett assumes, her presence in England at the time.