 ... Pope to sanction his undertaking. The Pope sent him a consecrated flag, and a bull authorizing the descent upon England, in the year 1066. William published his war-ban in the countries adjacent. He offered a large sum of money and the pillage of...  France, Social, Literary, Political - Page 239by Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Europe - 1844 - 338 pages
...offered a large sum of money and the pillage of England, to every man of tall and robust stature who would serve either with the lance, the sword, or the...and from Anjou, from Poitou and from Brittany, from Flanders, from Aquitaine, and from Burgundy, from Piedmont, and the borders of the Rhine. All the adventurers... | |
 | Joseph Willard - 1858 - 506 pages
...and multitudes flocked in from all quarters. " Some," says Thierry,* " arrived from the province of Maine and from Anjou, from Poitou and from Brittany, from France and from Flanders,f from Aquitaine and from Burgundy, from Piedmont and from the banks of the Rhine. All the... | |
 | Jean Roemer - English language - 1888 - 714 pages
...all roads, from far and near, from the north and from the south. Some arrived from the province of Maine and from Anjou, from Poitou and from Brittany,...from Aquitaine and from Burgundy, from Piedmont and from the banks of the Rhine. All the adventurers by profession, all the outcasts of Western Europe,... | |
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