The history of Fulk Fitz Warine - 1855 Author:Thomas Wright Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. Page 2. Yweyn Goynez. Owen Gwynned, or Gwyneth, ruled North Wales from 1137 to 1169, so that there is here an anachronism of at least fifty-six years. ... more » Mont Gylebert. Mount Gilbert was the common name, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, for the Wrekin. Vint ou grant ost. The Saxon Chronicle places king William's expedition to Wales in 1081. Leland, following the early English poem, says, " William Conqueror toke counsel of Corbet and Mortimer for strenkething of his marches aboute the quarters of Shropshire agayn the Walschmen." Page 3. Rogier de Bdehealme. This is a mistake of the composer of the narrative, who, of course, means Roger de Montgomery, to whom the Conqueror gave the earldom of Shropshire after 1071, but the exact year is not known. The title, de Belesme, belonged to earl Roger's first wife, and from her descended to their eldest son Robert. Une abbeye de Seynt-Piere. Shrewsbury Abbey, dedicated to St. Peter, was the foundation of Roger de Montgomery, as here stated. The building appears to have been commenced in 1087. Brugge. Bridgnorth. Earl Roger did not begin the castel here; but he built a castle at Quatford, which his son Robert transferred to'" Brugge." Dynan. Ludlow. The history of the commencement of Ludlow Castle is very obscure, and the territorial division of the district, as stated in Domesday, would seem to contradict the statement of its being begun by carl Roger, or, at least, to render it improbable. Yet I cannot but think that there was some foundation for the statement of our writer, which was evidently the common belief of the locality in the thirteenth century. Itobert. Robert de Belesme, the eldest son of Roger de Montgomery. It was his brother, Hugh de Montgomery, however, who succeeded his father in the Shro...« less