Roger de Montgomery

According to Wace's Roman de Rou, however, he commanded the Norman right flank at Hastings, returning to Normandy with King William in 1067.

At the end of 1067 or early in 1068, William gave Roger nearly all of what is now the county of West Sussex, a total of 83 manors,[2] which at the time of the Domesday Survey (1086) was an area known as the Rape of Arundel; and about 1071 Roger was granted estates in Shropshire[3] which amounted to some seven-eighths of the whole county;[2] he was also made Earl of Shrewsbury, but it is uncertain that the earldom came to him at the same time as the land, and it may have been a few years later.

[8] Roger married Mabel de Bellême, who was heiress to a large territory straddling the border between Normandy and Maine.

[9] The medieval chronicler Orderic Vitalis paints a picture of Mabel of Bellême being a scheming and cruel woman.

[10] She was murdered by Hugh Bunel and his brothers who, possibly in December 1077, rode into her castle of Bures-sur-Dive and cut off her head as she lay in bed.