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Transcriptions of Genealogy Tables

Transcription of Table A
THE DUCAL HOUSE OF NORMANDY
TABLE A
Transcription of Table B
The Counts of Brittany
TABLE B
Transcription of Table C
The Descendents of Arlette
TABLE C
Transcription of Table D
The Counts of Maine
TABLE D
Transcription of Table E
The Counts of Vexin
TABLE E
Transcription of Table F
The Succession in 1066
TABLE F
Transcription of Table G
The Counts of Flanders
TABLE G
Transcription of Table H
The Earls of Northumbria
TABLE H

Transcriber’s Note

The original cover has been enhanced to include the title, author, and date of publication, and is, so altered, placed in the public domain.

There are a number of editorial oversights wherein external and internal page references are left blank. Where the references could be found, they have been supplied.

87.27 on Waltheof’s case below, page [338.] Supplied.
116.31 See note, page [112] above. Supplied.
136.31 See the table on page [506] Supplied.

The missing page references to De la Borderie’s Histoire de Bretagne on pp. 138 (footnote 89), and 139 (footnote 90) could not be resolved. Nor could the reference to a prior quotation of William of Malmesbury be definitely made (p. 414). These are noted in this text as [missing].

The list of illusatrations includes a reference at p. x.13 to the image of a coin on p. 406, but no image was included in the text.

Footnote 260, on p. 339, had no reference in the text. One has been added at the most likely point in the narrative, given the context.

Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.

24.14 the orig[i]nal settlers of Normandy Inserted.
26.26 the [enemity] of all his fellow-nobles Obsolete.
40.15 the influence of the g[r]eat Cluniac movement Inserted.
72.20 the s[ei/ie]ge of Montgomery Castle Transposed.
76.13 to see two of Wil[l]iam’s unlucky guardians Inserted.
79.17 inflict gratuit[i]ous injury Removed.
81.30 The B[a/e]ssin and Cotentin Replaced.
129.30 which was de[s]cribed in the last chapter Inserted.
267.16 appointing a No[r]man baron Inserted.
327.18 in peaceable posses[s]ion Inserted.
338.1 the mo[ton/not] of his imprisonment Transposed.
339.7 based his accou[n]t Inserted.
424.21 upon his ag[g]ressive course as sheriff Inserted.
441.4 [“]infangenethef” is the right of trying Inserted.
441.36 a great baron cert[ia/ai]nly Transposed.
455.1 on a level w[i]th the Norman Inserted.
458.6 for the details of government[.] Added.
505.34 Clun[i/y], abbey of, 379 Replaced.