44/58 868.] [*** Hoveden, p.476.Order.Vitalis, p. 869.] [**** Gul.Neubr.lib.i.cap, 3.] [***** Eadmer, p 110.] [****** Chron, Sax.p.215. Vitalis, p 83] [******* See note M, at the end of the volume.] But as her absence from the kingdom, and her marriage into a foreign family, might endanger the succession, Henry, who was now a widower, was induced to marry, in hopes of having male heirs; and he made his addresses to Adelais, daughter of Godfrey, duke of Lovainc, and niece of Pope Calixtus, a young princess of an amiable person.[*] {1121.} But Adelais brought him no children; and the prince who was most likely to dispute the succession, and even the immediate possession of the crown, recovered hopes of subverting his rival, who had successively seized all his patrimonial dominions. |