The Conspiracy of the Norman Barons Against William the Bastard Duke of Normand
The Conspiracy of the Norman Barons Against William the Bastard Duke of Normand
Charles Edmond Prudent Le Cointe
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In this direction there is no river, nor was there one in the Xllth cent\iry, as the soil proves. The only water-course in the valley is a brook, the Semillon, which flows from east to north of the Wood of Navarre in the hamlet of Billy, rising at Yimont to flow into the Muance. Perhaps, in the dnys of Wace, the Semillon described in its course some curve to the west ; perhaps, again, the want of correctness IHK NORMAN liARONS. 3I on the i>art of the poet-historiaii may have arisen from the nec...essity of finding a rhyme. * Such is the scene of the memorable battle of Val-des-Dunes. The position taken up by the insurgent barons was strong and well chosen. With the Cote St. Laurent in their rear, their left flank protected by the marshes of Bellengreville and Chicheboville, their right flank guarded by the heights of Secqueville, they certainly had a great advantage over the Franco-Norman army, whose squadrons could only debouch by the valley, towards Billy and Navarre, and wlio had to carry * Barthclemy Pont, in his " Histoire de la ville de Caen, " says : — ''The army of the confederates had in its rear the little river Scmillon.
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