the year 1047, he formed a conspiracy to dispossess his benefactor of his sovereignty, and in a battle fought at Val-es-dunes in the comté of the Oximin, was defeated by the united forces of the French and Normans. Thence, having fled to Brionne, he was besieged in his castle three years, until, compelled by famine, he surrendered and implored the mercy of the duke, which he obtained, according to William of Jumiéges; "cujus dux, suorum consultu, miseriæ misertus clementer ille pepercit et recepto castello Brioci cum suis domesticis eum manere in domo suo jussit." This second marriage of Rodulf de Warren was subsequent to the marriage of William the Conqueror with Matilda, daughter of Baldwin de Lille, Comte of Flanders, as we learn from the following record, inserted in the cartulary of the abbey of Preaux, dedicated to St. Peter, in the vicinity of Pont-Audemer; and hence it is probable that the two sons named above were the issue of this first wife and not of the second, as conjectured by Monsieur Deville.
Eodem anno, quo in conjugium sortitus est Normannorum Marchio, Willelmus nomine, Balduini comitis filiam, dedit sancto Petro Pratelli consuetudines, quas habebat in quadam terra, que Wascolium vulgo vocatur, scilicet, hainfaram, utlac, rat, incendium, bernagium, bellum. Pro quibus abbas ejusdem loci Ansfridus nomine ei dignam dedit pecuniam, id est, x libras denariorum et orationes loci Pratelli. Eodem anno quidam miles de Warenna, Radulfus nomine, annuente conjuge sua Beatrice, dedit sancto Petro Pratelli quicquid in eadem terra, scilicet, Wascolio, habebat in plano, in aqua et silva; et ideo dedit ei predictus abbas societatem loci et quinque uncias auri et centum solidos et anulum aureum unum appendentem novem nummos et unum coclar argenteum. Huic conventioni interfuerunt testes ex parte Abbatis Rogerius filius Hunfridi, eo tempore vicecomes Rotomagi, et Girardus, comitis botellarius, et Guarnerius et Gotmundus et Gaufridus milites Abbatis et Christianus et Herbertus presbyteri. Ex parte vero Radulfi, Godefridus, frater ejus, et Hilbertus filius Turoldi de Fontanis et Robertus filius Ansfridi de Ivetot.
Ansfridus succeeded as abbot of Preaux, his predecessor Einardus in 1050, and the marriage of Duke William with Matilda did not take place until 1053, so that we are able to fix this date as that of the above grant, and to add a third brother Godefridus to the issue of Hugh, bishop of Coutances. Vascœuil is situate on the river Andelle, in the vicinity of the forest of Lyons. On the other hand the cartulary of the Holy Trinity affords two specific dates as to the time of his being the husband of Emma.
