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to the marriage of the sister of Roger to Ralph Guader, Earl of Norfolk, a
marriage that had prevented William.
There was that clear bride-beer
That was the lie of many men,
says the Saxon reporter, and it was so indeed. The two head
conspirators persuaded Earl Waltheof to connect them, at least for the
moment, and their plan was to drive out the king of England and to
divides the kingdom among them in three great principalities, "for
we desire", the Norman historian Orderic makes them say, to restore in
all respect the kingdom of England as it was previously of duration of
King Edward", a more meaningful indication of the general opinion
on the effect of the Conquest, even if the words are not theirs.
After the marriage the Earls of Norfolk and Hereford it separated to raise
their strengths and it brings together them, when theirs believed that they would be
too strongly for some strength that could be elevated to act against them. Them
counted on the unpopularity of the Normans and on the difficulties of the king
to the foreign countries which you/they would prevent his/her return to England. The king didn't do
return, but their other hope showed him fallacious. Wulfstan Vescovile of
Worcester and Abbot Ethelwy of Evesham, both the prelates English, with some
Norman help, cut the line of communication in the west and Earl
Roger could not force his/her way through. The two justiciarses, William of
Warenne and Richard of Bienfaite, after having summoned the earls to answer in
the king's court, with the help of I Hear Episcopalian and the Episcopalian one of Coutances,
who was also a great baron English, he/she raised an army of the English as
Normans, and it went to meet Earl Ralph that westwards was marching.
Anything as a battle happened, but the rebels were easily defeated.
Ralph ran away again to Norwich, but it didn't seem to him wise to stop
there. Leaving his/her wife to withstand a siege in the castle, he sailed away to
the assistance that had already been asked by Danish accelerates. A
It Danish it appeared indeed along the coast, but it didn't do anything over