THE ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE - outriders poetry project

Drusiana sent ambassadors to Bevis, and he once more crowned Sicorans king of Hungary,
Slovenia, Dalmatia, and Croatia, who remained king there, with his mother as queen. Bevis,
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accompanied by his sons and their wives, returned to Hampton, where there was great feasting and
joy.
When some days had passed, there came to London a great embassy. All the lords of the realm
being called, it came to London and there crowned his son William King of England. Then he
returned to Hampton, where he lived for a long time in great happiness with his lady Drusiana and
grew very old. While he lived, he became a great friend of King Pepin of France, so that the king
gave his son Guy a country called Auvergne, midway between Frisia and French Gascony, and at the
extreme edge of the Pyrenees toward Bordeaux.
In that country Guy had a son and gave him the name of Clairmont. He lived for sixty years and
then died, and in these sixty years he had erected a very beautiful castle. When he died, that castle
was named Clairmont. Within no more than thirty years, this was the most beautiful city in all that
region, for it filled with so many inhabitants that I became a great city. And in that city Guy had
another son, whose name was Bernard. And because Bernard had been born in that castle, all Guy’s
offspring were called the Clairmonts. Of Sinibald other mention will be made, in the chapters which
treat of him.
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The time came when the remaining son of Dudon of Maganza, Bevis’ maternal brother, called
Gailon, and now Lord of Flanders and Maganza and of Poitiers and Bayonne and many others,
having arrested one of his subjects, as fortune permitted, sent him to justice. Gailon rode there to
see him, and the malefactor threw himself upon his mercy. Gailon said: “If you have committed a