{109} This curious superstition is still preserved, in a debased
form, among the descendants of the Flemish population of this
district, where the young women practise a sort of divination with
the bladebone of a shoulder of mutton to discover who will be their
sweetheart. It is still more curious that William de Rubruquis, in
the thirteenth century, found the same superstition existing among
the Tartars.
{110} Arnulph, younger son of Roger de Montgomery, did his homage
for Dyved, and is said, by our author, to have erected a slender
fortress with stakes and turf at Pembroke, in the reign of king
Henry I., which, however, appears to have been so strong as to have
resisted the hostile attack of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn in 1092, and of
several lords of North Wales, in 1094.
{111} Walter Fitz-Other, at the time of the general survey of
England by William the Conqueror, was castellan of Windsor, warden
of the forests in Berkshire, and possessed several lordships in the
counties of Middlesex, Hampshire, and Buckinghamshire, which dominus
Otherus is said to have held in the time of Edward the Confessor.
William, the eldest son of Walter, took the surname of Windsor from
his father's office, and was ancestor to the lords Windsor, who have
since been created earls of Plymouth: and from Gerald, brother of
William, the Geralds, Fitz-geralds, and many other families are
lineally descended. The Gerald here mentioned by Giraldus is
sometimes surnamed De Windsor, and also Fitz-Walter, i.e. the son of
Walter; having slain Owen, son of Cadwgan ap Bleddyn, chief lord of
Cardiganshire, he was made president of the county of Pembroke.
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![The Itinerary Of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales By Giraldus Cambrensis
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