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The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 568 — Chapter VIII · THE EARLY YEARS OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.[497] A.D. 1028–1051.

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Will. Gem. vii. 33. “Alanum patrem meum apud Winmusterium in Normanniâ veneno peremisti.” But the Breton Chronicle in Morice (Memoires pour servir de Preuves à l’histoire de Bretagne) says only, “1039. Obiit Alanus Dux Britanniæ filius Gauffredi. 3 Kal. Oct.” Cf. Roman de Rou, 8139;

“Murut Alains a Normandie;

A Fescamp jut en l’Abéie.”

See Prevost’s note, i. 403.

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