Note 800 — Chapter XIII · THE NEGOTIATIONS OF DUKE WILLIAM.[752] January–August, 1066.

Henry of Huntingdon, as we have seen (see vol. i. p. 332), seriously believed in William’s hereditary right. So elsewhere (761 E) he speaks of his “jus cognationis.” The Ramsey Historian also (cap. cxx.) says that William sought “regnum aviti propinquitate sanguinis debitum.” But perhaps still more remarkable is the way in which William of Poitiers (143), after describing William’s election and coronation at Christmas, adds, “Et, si ratio sanguinis poscitur, pernotum est quam proximâ consanguinitate Regem Edwardum attigerit filius Ducis Rodberti, cujus amita, Richardi Secundi soror, filia Primi, Emina, genitrix fuit Edwardi.”