Note 640 — Chapter XII · THE LATER REIGN OF WILLIAM IN NORMANDY.[159] 1051–1066. (continued 3)

Will. Pict. 105. “Quoniam pueri ætas nondum fuit matura conjugio [Robert must have been four years younger than Margaret, whose father died in 1051, two years before William’s marriage], in locis tutis illam, prope nubilem, magno cum honore custodiri fecit, nobilium atque sapientium virorum ac matronarum curæ commissam.” Orderic (488 A) says she was entrusted “Stigaudo potenti viro de mansione Odonis.” Compare the entrusting of William’s own daughter to Roger of Beaumont; Orderic, 573 D.