WILLIAM IL
£he furbulence of some of his Norman nobles, In 1075, during hie
absence in Normandy, a plot called the Bridal of Norwich
Was suppressed by the prompt action of Lanfranc, the Troubles,
Norman prelate who suceceeded Stixand as Archbishop of: Canter-
bury. \{
14. In 1078, the King's eldest son, Robert, on being refused the
le of Normandy, headed a revolt in that province,
N Villiam besieged Robert in the Castle of Gerberoi, where Robert,
ltis said that father and son, both their visors being drawn, actually
Came into personal confliet. Kventually Robert was forced to ask for
terms of reconeilintion. The King’s half-brother, Odo of Bayeux, also
Me him much trouble. Odo was a bishop as well as a baron, and
William on imprisoning him wittily said: “I seize not the Bishop of
Bayaux, but the Earl of Kent” (1082).
15. In William's case, as in that of many others, as riches increased,
0 älso did the desire for them. Until his death, he con-
inned to amass Ureasures by confiscating the estates of Revival Sf
Noblemen and gentlemen who displeased him, We even Danegeld,
find him seiziug upon the report of a contemplated Danish invasion,
5 % Pretext for reviviuz the odious Danegeld (1084).
16. In 1085, William ordered a general survey to be made of
the lended Property of the kingdom, as a guide for the
\Mposition of taxes, The original record of this survey Domesday
Stil existe, It is called Domesduy Book, probably from BOoR
Domus Dei (‘“the house of Göd”), the name of the chapel of Winches-
ea in which it was kept, It contnins 8 deseription of every
) the kingdom as far north as the Teos, with minute details as
Togo /mership, different kinds of land, stock, mining and fishing privi-
ing evide, Domesday Book is of great historical valne, and is a strik-
Ötikinoss tr of the thorongh manner in which William caused publie
ASS £0 be transacted.
do Ma Yillinan died in September 1087, near Rouen, in France, where
self Mi Da on war with Philip I, to whon he hii- The Con-
Prench K of Normandy, owod fendal allegiance, The querör's
Derhaps de had jeered at W Üianı's corpuleney, and death.
Will so had interfered in the affairs of his ‚dukedom,
Ihe Set 8 troops had capturod and sacked Mantes, a small on
the hot ö As he ‚was entering on horseback, his horse stumbled m
600 vere 168, and inflieted on the rider an injury from which he never
°d, William had mer kecr thronghout life without a strong
i& Sa en Which increased in strength a8 death drew near, It
and $hat de 0 en of his eruelties filled him with remorse,
and Chäritable den Je öf his penitenee by many pious benefactions
Senluc Ca ecds, He fonnded Battle Abbey on the battle-field at
