Capitolo 9
and alive again in all of our two hundred and fifty arithmetic million
ancestors of the eleventh century, we should find doing us
a lot of amazing things, but among the rest we owe beautiful
you/he/she is certainly ploughing the most greater part of the fields of the Cotentin and
Calvados; going to hoard in every church of parish in Normandy;
military service that makes to every gentleman, spiritual or storm, in
this whole region; and helping to build the Church of Abbey to Mont-
Saint-Michel. From the roof of the Cathedral of Coutances on
that, one can look away at the hills and woods, the farms and
fields of Normandy, and so family, so family it is them, one is able
you almost swear that in this or the other, or in everybody, one knew,
life once and it never has so the wiseacre fully since then.
Never so the wiseacre fully since then! For us of the eleventh century, firm-
led, it close-struck with the fist, while grabbing, aware as we was, and as Normans
it is still said that is, is more fully standing in the centre of the world,
I enliven that our descendants English they ever did. We was a part, and
a great part, of the Church, of France and of Europe. The Leos and
Tenth Gregories and eleventh centuries it tilted him on us in them
great struggle for reform. Our Duke Richard-Sans-Peur, in 966,
resulted the old canons of the Mountain to bring here the
the tallest influence of the time, the Benedictine monks of Mountain
Cancels. Richard II, grandfather of William the Conqueror, started
this Church of Abbey in 1020, and it helped Abbot Hildebert to build him/it.
When William the Conqueror in the 1066 sets out to conquer England Pope,
Alexander II was standing behind him and blessed his/her flag. From that
moment our Norman Dukes threw the Kings of France in the shade. Our
activity was not limited to northern Europe, or it also confined from
Anjou and Gascony. When we stop to Coutances, we will drive out to
Hauteville to see where Tancred came from which give birth Robert and
Roger was conquering Naples and Sicily to the duration when the abbey
Church was building on the Mountain. Normans both everywhere in 1066,