Note 1060 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055]

I cannot identify Fulk the Lame, who seems not to occur in Domesday. A Fulk of Parmes signs a charter in the Cartulary of the Holy Trinity at Rouen (p. 465), and a Fulk of Caldri was a benefactor of the same house in 1084 (p. 466). As his charter is confirmed by King Philip and not by William, he was doubtless a Frenchman. Gerald the Seneschal (“Dapifer,” “Senescallus”) signs a charter of Robert of Montgomery (p. 442) in this very year (“anno dominicæ incarnationis MLXV, tunc scilicet quando Normannorum Dux Guillelmus cum classico apparatu ultra mare erat profecturus”). He is perhaps the same as Gerald the Marshal (Marescalcus) who appears in the Suffolk Domesday (438 b) as holding a former possession of Earl Ælfgar.