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drawing his sword, ran up stairs, with an inten- c n \ ption of taking revenge on his brothers The 1V 'whole castle was filled with tumult, which theking himself, who hastened from his apartment,found some difficulty to appease. But he could byno means appease the resentment of his eldest son ,who, complaining of his partiality , and fancyingthat no proper atonement had been made himfor the insult, lest the court that very evening,and hastened to Roiien , with an intention ofseizing the citadel of that place But beingdisappointed in this view by the precaution andvigilance of Roger de Ivery, the governor, hefled to Hugh de Neufchatel , a powerful Normanbaron, who gave him protection in his castles;and he openly levied war against his fatherThe popular character of the prince , and asimilarity of manners, engaged all the youngnobility of Normandy and Maine, as well asof Anjou and Britanny , to take part with him ; -and it was suspected that Matilda, his mother,whose favourite lie was, supported him in hisrebellion by secret remittances of money, andby the encouragement which she gave his parti-sans.

All the hereditary provinces of William, as well Icr? ’as his family, were during several years throwninto convulsions by this war, and he was at last

Order. Vital. p. 545. Ibid.

Ibid. Hoveden, p. 457. Sim. Dun. p. 210. Diceto,

p. 487.

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