The Brut, or The chronicles of England. Edited from Ms. Raw. B171, Bodleian Library, &c., by Friedrich W. D. Brie, with introduction, notes, and glossary ...

How Maude þe Emperesse come aȝey[ne] into Engeland; and how she was afterward wedded to Gaufrey, þe Erl of Angoy. Capitulo Centesimo xxxvij.

ANd when þat ij ȝere were gone, þat þe Erl hade duellede wiþ þe Kyng, þe Erl went þo fro þe Kyng, and biganne to werre oppon him, & dede miche harme in þe lande of Normandye. Wherfore Kyng Henry was sore annoiede when he herde þe tydynges. wiþ al þe haste þat he myght, he passede þe see, and come into Normandye, and toke þere a stronge castel, & þere helde him al þat ȝere. And þo come to him tydynges þat Henry, [MS Rawlinson B 171 80a] þe Emperour of Almaigne, þat hade spousede Maud his douȝter, was dede, and þat she duellede no longer in Almaigne, and þat she wolde come aȝeyne into Normandy to her fader. ¶ And when she was comen to him, he toke her þo wiþ him, and come aȝeyne into Engeland, & made þe Englisshemen to done oth & feaute vnto þe Emperesse. ¶ And þe ferst man þat

made þe oth was William þe Erchebisshop of Kaunterbury, and þat oþere Kyng Dauid of Scotland & after him, al þe Erles & barons of Engeland. ¶ And after þat, þe noble man, þe Erl of Angoy, a worþi knyȝt, sent to þe Kyng of Engeland þat he wolde grant him forto haue his doughter to spouse, Maude þe Emperesse. ¶ And for enchesoun þat her fader wist þat he was a noble man, þe Kyng grauntede him, & consentede þerto, and þo tok his doughter, and ladde her into Normandye, & come to þe noble knyȝt þe Erl Gaufrid; & he spousede þe forsaide Maude wiþ michel honoure; & þe Erl bigate oppon her a sone þat men callede 'Henry, þe Emperesse sone.' ¶ And after, when al þis was done, Kyng Henry duellede al þat ȝere in Normandy. and after þat, longe tyme, a grevous sikenesse toke him, wherfore he deide. & þis Kyng Henry regnede xxxv ȝere & iiij mounþes; & after he deide, as bifore is saide, in Normandy; & his hert was enterede in þe grete cherche of oure Lady of Roen, & his body was brouȝt wiþ michel honour into Engeland, & enterede at Redyng in þe Abbay; & of þe which Abbay he was bigynner & Foundoure.