. Henry II . of no strategic importance in Poitou and half therevenues of that province, and Geoffrey half the in-heritance of Constance, daughter of Count Conanof Brittany, and the whole when he married the same time the young king agreed to thebestowal upon his youngest brother, John, of thecastles of Nottingham and Marlborough, and £1000from the English revenues, as well as castles andrents in Normandy, Anjou, and Maine. Richardand Geoffrey then did homage to their father, butthis ceremony was dispensed with in Henrys caseout of deference to his rank of king. Finally, inDecember, Kin
. Henry II . of no strategic importance in Poitou and half therevenues of that province, and Geoffrey half the in-heritance of Constance, daughter of Count Conanof Brittany, and the whole when he married the same time the young king agreed to thebestowal upon his youngest brother, John, of thecastles of Nottingham and Marlborough, and £1000from the English revenues, as well as castles andrents in Normandy, Anjou, and Maine. Richardand Geoffrey then did homage to their father, butthis ceremony was dispensed with in Henrys caseout of deference to his rank of king. Finally, inDecember, King William the Lion obtained his re-lease from the prison at Falaise by becoming thevassal of Henry and undertaking to hold Scotlandunder the English king. To ensure the fulfilment ofthis treaty the castles of Edinburgh, Roxburgh,Berwick, Jedburgh, and Stirling were surrendered toHenry. The close of 1174 thus found Henry com-pletely triumphant and the formidable combinationof his enemies absolutely CHAPTER VIII HENRY AND HIS SONS—HIS DOWNFALLAND DEATH The economic effects of the rebellion were far- vreaching. Those who had been involved in it re-turned, it is true, nominally to the position in whichthey had been before the outbreak, but their landshad been systematically ravaged, their castles givento the flames, and blackened ruins told for a genera-tion the tale of their disastrous failure. So far asEngland was concerned these effects were morelocalised and less extensive. During the warMowbrays castles of Kirkby Malzeard and Axholmehad been destroyed, and at its close the same fatebefell Thirsk. Thetford and Brackley and the twoKentish castles of AUington and Saltwood had beendismantled before the end of 1174, and so hadGeoffrey de Turvilles castle of Weston. Next yearsaw the overthrow of Groby and Tutbury; Dudley,the castle of Earl Ferrers son-in-law, GervasePainel, was razed and its owner fined 500 marksfor his share in the revolt, his neighbour and comradein
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