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his/her mother's children from his/her marriage with de of Herlwin Conteville, had
state provided more richly for: I hear, Episcopalian of Bayeux as Earl of Kent,
and Robert, Accounts of Mortain, with a princely dominion in the southwest as
Earl of Cornwall. One of the first to be made an earl were his/her old man
friend and the child of his/her keeper, William Fitz Osbern that you/he/she had been
Earl created of Hereford; now he was dead and you/he/she had succeeded from his/her child
Roger, soon very justly to lose title and earth. Shrewsbury was kept from
Roger of Montgomery; Chester of Hugh of Avranches, the second earl;
Carriage of William of Warenne; Walter's Giffard Berkshire. Alan Rufus of
Britanny was Earl of Richmondshire; I hear of Champagne Earl of Holderness,;
and Ralph of Guader that was to divide in the fall of Roger Fitz
Osbern, Earl of Norfolk. An English that with a lot of less justice it was
to have involved in the fate that exactly these two Norman earls happened,
it was also to this point earl, Watheof that Gospatric had succeeded lately
in the earldom shaken of Northumberland, and that it also held the earldoms
of Northampton and Huntingdon. These men certainly held important
dominions in the called districts, but if so many earldomses, in form
and law, had really been established from the Conqueror to this date, or
it was established later from him to some time, it is very doubtful. The
the evidence of the reporters has easily shown for being unworthy of trust in the
the matter of titles and the most satisfactory evidence from which we get
rentals and the Book of Domesday it doesn't justify this wide list.
But the historian doesn't find him/it possible to decide with trust in
every individual case. Some earldoms of this list is almost sure
what we have to leave to fall out those of Cornwall, Holderness, Carriage, Berkshire,
and Richmond, and almost or rather some that can allow us to be standing
those of Waltheof and William Fitz Osbern, of Kent Chester, and
Shrewsbury.
Independently of the question of the evidence, it is difficult to see that that