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I-xxvi. v. 'FitzCount, Brian'; Davis, 'Henry of Blois and Brian fitzCount'. 9 Davis, King Stephen, pp. 7-12. html[3/30/2011 10:09:19 AM] next page > page_43 < previous page page_43 next page > Page 43 lands of Norman families which had ruined themselves in one way or another; but this does not invalidate the conclusion that England was a land of opportunity still for pushing, ambitious, and acquisitive Normans in the early twelfth century. Furthermore, not all the men of Norman origin in the middle ranks of the feudal hierarchy in England had 'come over with the Conqueror' any more than all their lords had done.

Domesday also records the presence of a certain number of anonymous Frenchmen in the English countryside (Ellis, General Introduction, ii. v. 'Francigenae'). , 1067 E (p. 146). The practice of giving lands 'to be conquered' was common enough in fourteenthcentury France. 3 William de Poitiers says that Eustace de Boulogne forfeited the fiefs that he had received from King William after his attack on Dover in 1067. He does not say directly that these fiefs were in England, though this may perhaps be presumed (Gesta, pp.

4 Tribute was also taken from English towns that were within the Conqueror's reach;5 and still 'he laid taxes on the people very severely',6 even before he returned to Normandy in March 1067. William de Poitiers gives an ecstatic account of the triumphal parade through his duchy. 7 But in addition to impressing his own people, William was able to pay off such of his mercenaries as wished to be released,8 and reward those of his followers who, like Aimeri de Thouars,9 did not accept land in England but are not likely to have gone empty away.

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