Note 3.4

The introduction to The Chartulary of the Priory of Saint Peter at Sele (edited by L F Salzman, Cambridge, 1923) describes the dedication of the church at Briouze: William had one son Philip, who assented to his father's gifts, but apparently with little enthusiasm, as on Sunday, 11 December, 1093, when the church of Briouze was dedicated, William caused his gifts to Saint Florent to be recited and "because his son Philip seemed to have grudgingly allowed them, he and his son and William de Crenella his nephew [possibly son of William's brother Robert, who occurs as witness to one of William's charters: Round's Cal. Docts. France, 396] renewed them that day, when the bishop in full pontificals was standing at the altar, about to celebrate mass, in his presence, and that of the clergy and the people round about, with the knife of Armellus the monk, which they three with their own hands placed on the altar. [Round's Cal. Docts. France, 400.]. Saltzman's source, Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, Illustrative of the History of Great Britain and Ireland (edited by J H Round, London 1899), page 400, number 1118, states: [Notification that] in the year 1093, Sunday, December 11, the church of St. Gervase of Braiosa was dedicated by Serlo bishop of Sées. On which day William de Braiosa caused to be read anew and recorded (commemorari), in his sight and that of Philip his son and others his barons the gifts which, at sundry times, he had made to St. Florent and his monks, both in England and Normandy; and because his son Philip seemed to have grudgingly allowed them, he and his son and William de Crenella his nephew (nepos) renewed them that day, when the bishop, in full pontificals, was standing at the altar about to celebrate mass, in his presence and that of the clergy and the people round about, with the knife of Armellus the monk, which they three, with their own hands, placed on the altar. This was seen by bishop Serlo, Baldwin and Guy, archdeacons, Hugh the bishop's dapifer, William Paganus, Umfrey the priest, Odo de Fraxineto, Herbert son of Gunduin, Richard de Meriaco. On the following day, that is Monday, Umfrey the priest and Hugh the priest quitclaimed all the rights they might have the the church of St. Gervase. Actum in domo monachorum die predicta. Qui antem vicerunt et andierunt sunt: Guillemus de Braiosa; Philippus filius ejus; Rotbertus de Cancereis; Rotgerius Boterels; Radulfus filius Odonis; Gosbertus; Morinus de S[ancto] Andrea; Galterus de Falesia.

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