by Jim Bradbury
30. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 208 has the last information clearly derived from Poitiers’ surviving manuscript, from then on we may expect material from Poitiers but only surviving in Orderic. This is made practically certain by Orderic’s comment, p. 258: ‘William of Poitiers has brought his history up to this point’: i.e. Orderic, pp. 208–58, must make use of the lost end section of Poitiers.
31. William of Jumièges, ed. van Houts, ii, p. 178.
32. Williams, The Norman Conquest, p. 24.
33. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 212.
34. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 216.
35. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 150.
36. Kapelle, The Norman Conquest, p. 112.
37. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 150; Symeon of Durham in Stevenson, p. 550; Cubbins (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 84.
38. Symeon of Durham in Stevenson, p. 551.
39. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, pp. 222, 230.
40. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 234.
41. Symeon of Durham in Stevenson, p. 551.
42. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, pp. 230–2.
43. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, pp. 148–9, D and John of Worcester, eds Darlington amd McGurk, give sixty-four ships; Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 224 has sixty-six.
44. William of Jumièges, ed. van Houts, ii, p. 182.
45. It is not certain when she went, it may have been before the second raid, since John of Worcester has 1068. Orderic says she went to France, Worcester has Flanders – which seems more likely.
46. Williams, The Norman Conquest, pp. 35, 49–50 and n. 21.
47. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 154.
48. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 258.
49. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 158.
50. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 318.
51. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 157; Cubbins (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 87: ‘wreide hine sylfne, 7 bæd forgyfenysse, 7 bead gærsuman’.
52. William of Malmesbury, ed. Stubbs, ii, pp. 313–14.
53. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 322; Symeon of Durham in Stevenson, p. 563, has an axe.
54. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, p. 266.
55. R.H.C. Davis, The Normans and their Myth, London, 1976; G. Loud, ‘The Gens Normannorum – myth or reality’, PBA, iv, 1981, pp. 104–16; M. Bennett, ‘Stereotype Normans in Old French vernacular literature’, ANS, ix, 1986, pp. 25–42. Searle, Predatory Kinship, suggests there was some reality to the ideas of a Scandinavian inheritance.
56. D.J.A. Matthew, The Norman Conquest, London, 1966, p. 97.
57. Williams, The Norman Conquest, p. 3.
58. Williams, The Norman Conquest, p. 85.
59. Williams, The Norman Conquest, pp. 3, 103.
60. E. van Houts, ‘The trauma of 1066’, History Today, 46, 1996, pp. 9–15, p. 9.
61. Williams, The Norman Conquest, p. 88; E.O. Blake (ed.), Liber Eliensis, Camden 3rd ser, xcii, London, 1962, p. 211.
62. Whitelock et al. (eds), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 145; Cubbins (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 81: ‘7 warhton castelas wide geond ¬as eode, 7 ¬earn folc swencte, 7 aδδan hit yflade swiδe’.
63. Symeon of Durham in Stevenson, p. 551.
64. Orderic Vitalis, ed. Chibnall, ii, pp. 204, 220, 232.
65. Kapelle, The Norman Conquest, e.g. p. 233.
NOTES
Abbreviations Used
ANS
Anglo-Norman Studies
Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry, ed. D.M. Wilson, London, 1985
BL
British Library
BM
British Museum
CG
Château-Gaillard, Études de Castellologie Medievale
CHF
Classiques de l’Histoire de France
EHR
English Historical Review
IPMK
The Ideal and Practice of Medieval Knighthood
JMH
Journal of Medieval History
MGH
Monumenta Germaniae Historica
PBA
Proceedings of the British Academy
RAB
Studies in Medieval History presented to R. Allen Brown, eds C. Harper-Bill, C. Holdsworth. J.L. Nelson, Woodbridge, 1989
RS
Rolls Series
ser.
series
Stevenson
The Church Historians of England, ed. J. Stevenson, 5 vols, London, 1853–8
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PLATES
Statue of Alfred the Great, Winchester.
Corfe Castle, on the site where Edward the Martyr was killed in 978. He had reigned for only three years and was succeeded by his brother Aethelred.
