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Excerpt from Rogeri De Wendover Chronica, Sive Flores Historiarum, Vol. 3: Nunc Primum Edidit Henricus O. Coxe
A.b.1189. Bus ac militibus, per ministerium archiepiscopi de altari beatae virginis Mariae ducatus Nor manniae gladium suscepit; receptaque fidelitate tam cleri quam populi, J ohanni fratri suo om nes terras, quas pater suus ei dederat in An glia, terram videlicet quatuor millium marca rum, cumque comitatu toto Moretonii, dapsili ter confirmavit. Concessit etiam lgaufrido fra tri suo, ecclesiae Lincolniensis quondam electo, archiepiscopatum Eboracensem; qui continuo, m1551s clericis suis cum literis ducis, accepit archiepiscopatum in manu sua, expulsis custo dibus regis et Huberti Walteri, ejusdem eccle siae decani et a quibusdam canonicis ecclesiae illius 'electi. Dux igitur tertio sui ducatus die, habuit colloquium cum rege Francorum inter Calvam-montem et Trie, in quo colloquio rex Francorum postulavit Gisortium castellum et to tam provinciam adjacentem; sed, quoniam dux accepturus erat Alesiam sororem regis in con jugem, sustinuit ad tempus, promissis a duce quatuor millibus marcis, praeter supradictam pecuniam, quam promiserat pater suus.
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