Note 40 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES

Another 'Norman' on whom I would touch is 'Robert fitz Wimarc', so often mentioned by Mr Freeman. I claim him too as a Breton, on his mother's side at least, if Wimarc, as seems to be the case, was his mother, for that is a distinctively Breton name. Mr Freeman queried the Biographer's description of him as 'regis consanguineus', when at Edward's death-bed;40 but he is clearly the 'Robertus regis consanguineus' of the Waltham charter.41 He was also of kin to William.42