Waleram

Family: Normans · Role: Earl of Mellent · First appears: A.D. 1124–1126

Life events

• 1124 · Henry's forces captured Waleram, Hugh the son of Gervase, and Hugh of Montfort, and imprisoned them.(A.D. 1124–1126 · 📍 Rouen)
  • With: Hugh the son of Gervase Hugh of Montfort
  • “Then came against them the king's knights from all the castles that were thereabout, and fought with them, and put them to flight, and took the Earl Waleram, and Hugh, the son of Gervase, and Hugh of Montfort, and five and twenty other knights, and brought them to the king. And the king committed the Earl Waleram, and Hugh, the son of Gervase, to close custody in the castle at Rouen; but Hugh of Montfort he sent to England, and ordered him to be secured with strong bonds in the castle at Glocester.”
• 1124 · Henry won the castles Waleram held in Normandy.(A.D. 1124–1126 · 📍 Normandy)
  • With: King Henry
  • “After this went the king, and won all the castles of the Earl Waleram that were in Normandy, and all the others that his enemies held against him.”
• 1126 · Henry brought Waleram and Hugh the son of Gervase to England and sent them into captivity.(A.D. 1124–1126 · 📍 Bridgenorth)
  • With: Hugh the son of Gervase
  • “With him came the queen, and his daughter, whom he had formerly given to the Emperor Henry of Lorrain to wife. And he brought with him the Earl Waleram, and Hugh, the son of Gervase. And the earl he sent to Bridgenorth in captivity: and thence he sent him afterwards to Wallingford; and Hugh to Windsor, whom he ordered to be kept in strong bonds.”
• 1129 · Henry received hostages for Waleram and Hugh; Hugh returned to France while Waleram remained with the king.(A.D. 1129–1135 · 📍 England)
  • With: King Henry Hugh the son of Gervase
  • “And they gave hostages for them. And Hugh went home to his own land in France; but Waleram was left with the king”
• 1129 · Henry restored Waleram's lands except his castle, and they became friends again.(A.D. 1129–1135)
  • With: King Henry
  • “and the king gave him all his land except his castle alone. Afterwards came the king to England within the harvest: and the earl came with him: and they became as good friends as they were foes before.”

A.D. 1124–1126

• with King Henry (interaction) “And the king committed the Earl Waleram, and Hugh, the son of Gervase, to close custody in the castle at Rouen”

A.D. 1129–1135

• friends with King Henry “and they became as good friends as they were foes before.”
• with King Henry (interaction) “In this year sent the King to England after the Earl Waleram, and after Hugh, the son of Gervase.”
• enemies with King Henry “and the earl came with him: and they became as good friends as they were foes before.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.