The Norman Conquest
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Although he had never succeeded in finding a suitable duchess, he had once enjoyed a liaison with a girl from the town of Falaise called Herleva.1 Later chroniclers romanticized this relationship, reporting that Robert had been smitten as he watched Herleva from a distance (dancing in one version, washing her clothes in another), but the truth was probably more prosaic. The most reliable account states that she was the daughter of Fulbert, described on different occasions as an undertaker and a ...ducal chamberlain. Robert probably began their affair before his accession in 1027, for in that year, or possibly the next, Herleva bore him a son. The new duke chose to honour the memory of his great-grandfather, and called the boy William.2Little William, of course, had a glorious future ahead of him. After his death he was commonly called ‘the Great’, though posterity would eventually settle on ‘the Conqueror’. Contemporaries, however, preferred to describe him with reference to the circumstances of his birth: as a young man he was reportedly taunted on account of his mother’s humble origins, and chronicles composed towards the end of his life— non-Norman ones, at least— routinely call him ‘the Bastard’.3 Whether his parentage was a problem at the start of his career is a more open question.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Although he had never succeeded in finding a suitable duchess, he had once enjoyed a liaison with a girl from the town of Falaise called Herleva.1 Later chroniclers romanticized this relationship, reporting that Robert had been smitten as he watched Herleva from a distance (dancing in one version, washing her clothes in another), but the truth was probably more prosaic. The most reliable account states that she was the daughter of Fulbert, described on different occasions as an undertaker and a ...ducal chamberlain. Robert probably began their affair before his accession in 1027, for in that year, or possibly the next, Herleva bore him a son. The new duke chose to honour the memory of his great-grandfather, and called the boy William.2Little William, of course, had a glorious future ahead of him. After his death he was commonly called ‘the Great’, though posterity would eventually settle on ‘the Conqueror’. Contemporaries, however, preferred to describe him with reference to the circumstances of his birth: as a young man he was reportedly taunted on account of his mother’s humble origins, and chronicles composed towards the end of his life— non-Norman ones, at least— routinely call him ‘the Bastard’.3 Whether his parentage was a problem at the start of his career is a more open question.
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