Note 553 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051.
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Will. Gem. u. s. “Juxta decretum Ducis protinùs eum promptâ vivacitate suum collaudavere principem ac dominum, pangentes illi fidelitatem non violandis sacramentis.” Cf. Roman de Rou, 8117 et seqq. The events which followed make one doubt as to the genuineness of the “prompta vivacitas.”