Capitolo 88
it was an adaptation next to his/her tempestuous career. War of border along the
French border was not what unusual, but anything on a raid of the
garrison of Mantes, in Normandy to the beginnings of 1087, roused William
special anger. He determined that plundering in that quarter owes
stop, and reviving her old applications that you/they had been from very inactive he asked for the
restoration to Normandy of the French and whole Vexin of which Mantes was
the city of capital. Phillip treated his/her applications with contempt, and it added a
he/she teases common on the corpulence of William that roused his/her anger as personnel
insults always did, to a white heat. The earth around Mantes was cruelly
waste placed by his/her orders, and from an advance I improvise the city you/he/she was brought
and burnt completely, churches and houses together. The heat and the exercise of
the attack, together with a damage that he received while riding
through the roads of the city, being thrown violently against the
pummel of its saddle from the stumbling of its horse, tried too much for
William in his/her physical condition, and he was brought back to Rouen to
dies after some weeks.
A monastic reporter of a small later date, Orderic Vitalis gives us a
account detailed of his/her repentance of death-bed, but it was openly
writing rather for the building of the believer that to record
done historical. However it is interesting to note that, while William
you/he/she is hurt to express the deepest pain for the numerous actions of
what salesclerks were in the trial of the Conquest of England, there is
any word that points out some repentance for the Conquest it or belief
on the part of William that him it unjustly contained England. He admits that it did
doesn't come to him from his/her fathers but the same sentence that it contains
this admission affirms that he had earned him from the favour of God. It has
is strongly disputed by these words, and from others as them, what
has put later in the mouth of William in this dying confession, when him
it comes to get rid himself/herself/themselves of his/her kingdoms and treasures, that William it was aware