General results of the campaign.
Progress of Henry. details till William became master of all Normandy by quite another process. But though we get no details of the war from Norman sources, we do get a general picture of its results. The no-rule of Robert is once more set before us in speaking words. The soft Duke, who feared his subjects more than they feared him, was benumbed with softness and idleness.[1] He is contrasted with both his brothers. Henry held his stronghold at Domfront, together with a large but undefined part of the duchy, including without doubt the more part of his old peninsular county. Some places he had won by arms; others, like Domfront itself, had sought his rule of their own free will.[2] Within these bounds he yielded to his brother the Duke just so much service as he thought good,[3] which at this particular moment would be little indeed. And the other brother who wore the diadem of England held more than twenty castles on Norman ground. He, unlike Robert, was a ruler whom men feared; and his gifts, and the fear of him together, kept many of the great men of the land, not only in his allegiance, but in his zealous service.[4] If Normandy was not conquered, it was at least effectually dismembered.
Norman supporters of William. The list of the Norman nobles who joined the King from beyond sea takes in most of the names with
- [Footnote: heldan, uppon heora broðer Rodbeard eorl, and gelomlice uppon þone eorl
wann, and him mycelne hearm ægðer on lande and on mannan dyde."]
- ↑ Ord. Vit. 722 D. "Rodbertus mollis dux a vigore priorum decidit, et pigritia mollitieque torpuit, plus provinciales subditos timens quam ab illis timebatur."
- ↑ Ib. "Henricus frater ducis Danfrontem fortissimum castrum possidebat, et magnam partem Neustriæ sibi favore vel armis subegerat."
- ↑ Ib. "Fratri suo ad libitum suum, nec aliter, obsecundabat." I do not see what is meant in Sigebert's Chronicle under 1095 (Pertz, vi. 367); "Rex Anglorum a fratribus sollicitatur in Normania et Anglia."
- ↑ Ib. "Porro alius frater qui Angliæ diadema gerebat in Normannia, ut reor, plusquam xx. castra tenebat, et proceres oppidanosque potentes muneribus sibi vel terroribus illexerat. . . . Perplures cum omnibus sibi subditis munitionibus et oppidanis regi parebant, eique, quia metuendus erat, totis nisibus adhærebant."
