This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...he came to Worcester and inspected the work, and sternly reproved Urso, to whom lie is reported to have said: --" Hightest thou, Urse? Have thou God's curse!" adding, " and mine and that of all holy men unless thou rcmovest thy castle from hence, and know of a truth that thine offspring shall not long hold the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...he came to Worcester and inspected the work, and sternly reproved Urso, to whom lie is reported to have said: --" Hightest thou, Urse? Have thou God's curse!" adding, " and mine and that of all holy men unless thou rcmovest thy castle from hence, and know of a truth that thine offspring shall not long hold the land of St. Mary to their heritage." The prophecy, if not a subsequent invention, was soon fulfilled, for his son Roger d'Abetot, having killed a servant of Henry I., was banished and his confiscated estates given by the King, with the hand of his sister Emmeline d'Abetot, to Walter de Beau--champ of Bedford. William of Malmesbury: Do Oestis Pontificum. Urso was living as Late as the reign of Henry I., but the date of his death is not recorded. The authors of " Recherches " were mistaken in saying that his wife's name was unknown. She witnessed her husband's charter to Great Malvern as " Atheliza, Vicecomitissi." Of her parentage however, we are" ignorant. The ungallant conduct of the early genealogists toward the female members of our noble Norman families, deprives history of much of its interest and is the cause of endless confusion and perplexity. WALTER AND ILBERT DE LACY. Lacie, now called Lossy, the place from which this great Norman family derived its name, is on the road from Vere to Auvray. Of its earlier lords we know nothing, and Wace's " Oil de Lacie" and " Le Chevalier de Lacie," do not enlighten us. Neither do we receive much assistance from his French or English annotators, who refer us to Dugdale and the English genealogists. From them we learn that a Walter and an Ilbert de Lacy were certainly present at Senlac, though how related to each other they have no evidence, nor can we venture to suggest which was the " Sire de...
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