THE HISTORY OF NORMANDY AND OF ENGLAND, BY SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE, K.H. THE DEPUTY KEEPER OF HER MAJESTY'S VOLUME II. THE THREE FIRST DUKES OF NORMANDY;-ROLLO, GUILLAUME-LONGUE-ÉPÉE, AND RICHARD-SANSPEUR-THE CARLOVINGIAN LINE SUPPLANTED BY THE CAPETS. Narratione autem historica (ait Augustinus) cum præterita etiam hominum instituta narrantur, non inter humana instituta ipsa historia numeranda est; quia jam quæ transierunt, nec infecta fieri possunt, in ordine temporum habenda sunt, quorum est conditor et administrator Deus. ADVERTISEMENT. IN consequence of the bulk which this volume has attained, occasioned partly by the employment of historical evidences hitherto cast aside, and partly by feeling as I proceeded, the increasing necessity of elucidating the intimate connection between German History, and the History of Normandy and France, I am deterred from adding any notes or references or illustrative extracts. They are reserved for the third volume. The full account appended of the principal authorities upon which the text is founded, will enable any reader to compare my narrative with the sources. Moreover in the third volume I purpose to resume the essays elucidating the general relations of the mediaval period, continuing the series prefixed to the first. The subjects next discussed will probably be the Episcopate ;-the influences of Christianity upon the Fine Arts; also upon the cultivation of profane literature; all of which are in forwardness, having been draughted many years since, as well as the main history, the latter Edward III. latter more or less completely, until Domestic calamities and afflictions greatly retarded me in the progress of the present volume. But, with the papers before me, I hope I may be permitted to accomplish the completion of the third and fourth during the current and the ensuing year. In concluding these prefatory remarks, I must testify my gratitude to that old friend-a friend whom I have known during the greater part of my authorial life, and now the senior partner in the firm by which this book is brought out,-for his unwearied kindness in submitting to the loss and inconvenience which, in a commercial point of view, his House has sustained by the undue protraction of the publication. F. P. February 6, 1857. CONTENTS. 912 Charles-le-Simple,-his reputation destroyed by the PAGE 910-911 Disturbed state of Germany 911-912 Conrad of Franconia, elected King. Gilbert, Duke Rainier's son,-his achievements as a 919-920 Conspiracy formed against Charles, by Robert, - Duke of France and Count of Paris Robert's character and alliance Herbert of Vermandois coalesces with Robert. 14, 15 |