. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. the ducalfamily endeavoured to have William set aside. The states,however, obstinately adhered \.d their former decision, andWilliam triumphed over all his competitors. 26. These warsevidently proved the source of the dukes future prosperity,as they supplied him with an army inured to combats, andinspirited by repeated success,, with which he was enabled totake advantage of the opportunities presented him by the Confessor, on his return to England, became dis-gusted with his Saxon subjects, and
. History of France and Normandy, from the earliest times to the revolution of 1848. the ducalfamily endeavoured to have William set aside. The states,however, obstinately adhered \.d their former decision, andWilliam triumphed over all his competitors. 26. These warsevidently proved the source of the dukes future prosperity,as they supplied him with an army inured to combats, andinspirited by repeated success,, with which he was enabled totake advantage of the opportunities presented him by the Confessor, on his return to England, became dis-gusted with his Saxon subjects, and gave himself up to Nor-man favorites. The family of Godwin, Earl of Kent, wereparticularly odious to him, and to prevent their becoming hissuccessors, (which, as he had no heirs, appeared very proba-ble,) he bequeathed his crown to William, duke of the death of Edward, Harold assumed the crown • A. D. of England, but William passing over at the head of |^fi«a gallant army, defeated the English at the decisivebattle of Hastings, slew Harold, and subjected the whole. William the Conqueror receiving the Crown of England. 70 HISTORY OF NORMANDY. country to the Norman sway. From henceforward the his-tory of Normandy is so intimately connected with that ofFrance and England, that it is no longer necessary to treat ofit separately. 27. A little before the conquest of England, some Normanadventurers founded a new kingdom in Italy, under circum-stances so extraordinary as to demand some notice■iQin Forty Norman gentlemen, returning from a pilgrimagato Jerusalem, saved the city of Salerno, which was onthe point of being seized by the Saracens, and refused to re-ceive any of the rewards offered to them by the gratitude ofthe inhabitants. The fame of this exploit spreading throughItaly, induced several of the Italian princes to take into theirpay troops of Norman adventurers, who were ever ready tosell their services. The duke of Naples, to whom they hadbeen of great use i
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