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you calm there, under the control of Matilda and those that had been
named to assist her/it. The visit of William looks less as at this point a
necessity that a parade to make an exposure of the the results of his
hazard. Him taken with him a splendid assortment of looting and a long
train of nobles English, among who the young atheling Edgar, Stigand,
Archbishop of Canterbury, Earls Edwin and Morcar, Waltheof his/her child of
Siward, the abbot of Glastonbury and a thane in Kent, are mentioned from
name. The favour and honour with which William treated these men didn't do
disguise from them the fact that they was really contained as hostages. No
business of the special importance it occupied William during his/her nine months'
is in Normandy. He was received with great joyfulness on every hand,
especially in Rouen, where Matilda was being, and his/her return and
triumphal progress through the country remembered to its panegyrist of the
the successes and glories of the great Roman commanders. He distributed with
a hand free, to he/she asked her and convents the wealth that he had
brought with him. A great reunion gathered to celebrate with him the
Party Pasquale in the abbey of Fecamp. Its presence was tried to add eclat
to the dedication of new churches. But the event of the greatest
importance that happened during this visit to the dukedom was the fall
vacant of the record of Normandy from the death of Maurilius, Archbishop
of Rouen. The universal choice for its successor was Lanfranc the,
Italian, Abbot of St. Stephen to Caen to that you/he/she had already done evident
the whole possession of those talents for government to which he was
manages in a greater field. But although William was standing ready, in form to
to grant his/her sanction, Lanfranc declined the less, the election that then
you fall on John, Episcopalian of Avranches, a the friend of his. Lanfranc was expeditious
to Rome to get the pallium for the new archbishop, but its mission was
in every probability one of information to the pope that concerns greater
you interest that those of the archbishop's palace of Rouen.