Note 833 — Chapter XIII · THE NEGOTIATIONS OF DUKE WILLIAM.[752] January–August, 1066.

Orderic twice stops to discuss the Roman origin of Lillebonne (554 C and 864 B, C). It was founded by Caius Julius Cæsar on the site of a Gaulish town called Caletum, which he had destroyed. It was called Julia after his daughter. In Orderic’s own time it was barbarously called “Illebona.” William of Malmesbury (iii. 238), from whom we learn that Lillebonne was the place of meeting, calls it “Lillebona.”