There Appears To Be Some Biographical Error In
The Words Of Giraldus - "Filia Scilicet Henrici De Essexia," For By
The
Genealogical accounts of the Vere and Essex families, we find
that Henry de Essex married the daughter of the second
Alberic de
Vere; whereas our author seems to imply, that the mother of Alberic
the second was daughter to Henry de Essex.
{169} "And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel,
and of the chesnut tree, and peeled white strakes in them, and made
the white appear which was in the rods. And he set the rods, which
he had peeled, before the flocks in the gutters in the watering
troughs, when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive
when they came to drink. And the flocks conceived before the rods,
and brought forth cattle speckled and spotted." - Gen. xxx.
{170} Owen Gwynedd, the son of Gruffydd ap Conan, died in 1169, and
was buried at Bangor. When Baldwin, during his progress, visited
Bangor and saw his tomb, he charged the bishop (Guy Ruffus) to
remove the body out of the cathedral, when he had a fit opportunity
so to do, in regard that archbishop Becket had excommunicated him
heretofore, because he had married his first cousin, the daughter of
Grono ap Edwyn, and that notwithstanding he had continued to live
with her till she died. The bishop, in obedience to the charge,
made a passage from the vault through the south wall of the church
underground, and thus secretly shoved the body into the churchyard.
- Hengwrt.
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