Note 1157 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]
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The French Biographer of Eadward (4333) gives an amusing origin for the name. William
“Une tur ferme e renuvele,
Ke li Ducs Hastinges apele,
Hastivement ke fu fermée,
E pur co fu si appelée.”