They Afterwards Removed
To Gloucester, Where They Built A Church And Spacious Monastery,
Which, After The Name Of Their Former Residence, They Called
Llanthoni; It Was Consecrated A.D. 1136, By Simon, Bishop Of
Worcester, And Robert Betun Bishop Of Hereford, And Dedicated To The
Virgin Mary.
{60} The titles of mother and daughter are here applied to the
mother church in Wales, and the daughter near Gloucester.
{61} William of Wycumb, the fourth prior of Llanthoni, succeeded to
Robert de Braci, who was obliged to quit the monastery, on account
of the hostile molestation it received from the Welsh. To him
succeeded Clement, the sub-prior, and to Clement, Roger de Norwich.
{62} Walter de Laci came into England with William the Conqueror,
and left three sons, Roger, Hugh, and Walter. Hugh de Laci was the
lord of Ewyas, and became afterwards the founder of the convent of
Llanthoni; his elder brother, Robert, held also four caracutes of
land within the limits of the castle of Ewyas, which king William
had bestowed on Walter, his father; but joining in rebellion against
William Rufus, he was banished the kingdom, and all his lands were
given to his brother Hugh, who died without issue.
{63} This anecdote is thus related by the historian Hollinshed:
"Hereof it came on a time, whiles the king sojourned in France about
his warres, which he held against king Philip, there came unto him a
French priest, whose name was Fulco, who required the king in
anywise to put from him three abominable daughters which he had, and
to bestow them in marriage, least God punished him for them.
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