Note 636 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051.
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Will. Gem. vi. 9. “A Danis igitur qui Normanniam primi obtinuere pater ejus originem duxit.” So Milo Crispin, Vitæ Abb. Becc. (Giles, Lanfranc, i. 261), who copies William. Both give the name Ansgotus. I know not why pedigree-makers (see one quoted by Taylor, Wace 209, and another in Sir A. Malet’s Wace 269) identify this Ansgod with “Crispinus of Bec.”