Surrey, contains distinct evidence that the wife of King William the Conqueror was the mother of his wife, in the following paragraph:
Volo quod sciant qui sunt et qui futuri sunt, quod ego Willelmus de Warrenna Surreie comes, donavi et confirmavi Deo et sancto Petro et abbati et conventui de Cluniaco ecclesiam Sancti Pancratii, que sita est sub castro meo Lewiarum, et eidem Sancto Pancratio et monachis Cluniacensibus, quicumque in ipsa ecclesia Sancti Pancratii Deo serviunt, iniperpetuum donavi pro salute anime mee et anime Gundrade uxoris mee et pro anima domini mei Willelmi Regis, qui me in Anglicam terram adduxit et per cujus licentiam monachos venire feci, et qui meam priorem donationem confirmavit, et pro salute domine mee Matildis Regine, matris uxoris mee, et pro salute domini mei Willelmi Regis, filii sui, post cujus adventum in Anglicam terram hanc cartam feci et qui me comitem Surreie fecit, et pro salute omnium heredum meorum et omnium fidelium Christi vivorum et mortuorum, in sustentationem predictorum monachorum Sancti Pancratii, mansionem Falemeram nomine, totim quicquid ibi in dominio habui, cum hida terre, quam Eustachius in Burgemera tenet et ad ipsum mansionem pertinet. Mansionem quoque Carlentonam nomine quam domina mea Matildis Regina dedit Gundrade uxori mee et mihi, et hoc concessit et con- firmavit dominus mens rex Willelmus in auxilium ad fundandum novos monachos nostros; totum quod ibi habuimus.
The entries in Domesday, as to Palmer in Sussex and Carlton in Cambridgeshire, describe them as held of William de Warene at that time by St. Pancras, and the abbot of Cluny; but as regards the last-named place, it is there simply stated that Earl Algar had held the land. His Saxon predecessor in all his other lands in that county had been Tochi, the thane of King Edward, whence it is probable that the four hides and two acres so excepted were of the gift of Queen Matilda, as mentioned in the charter.
Pope Leo IX. was imprisoned by the Normans from the 23rd of June, 1053, until the 12th of March, 1054; and during this interval the marriage of William the Conqueror with the wife of Gorbod took place, not in Flanders, but in Normandy. Baldwin, her father, himself conducted her into Ponthieu, the district bordering upon Normandy, where he was met by his future son-in-law, and at the frontier-town of the duchy, Eu, the ceremony of marriage was performed. William, the monk of Jumieges, a contemporary writer, thus narrates the attendant circumstances, in chapter 21 of his seventh book, under the heading Quod dux Willelmus duxit Mathildem filiam Balduini Flandrensis, neptem Henrici Regis.
