[6] At the battle of Tinchebray (1106), Orderic Vitalis states, Waldric capellanus regis captured Robert Curthose, Henry I of England's brother and leader of the opposing forces as Duke of Normandy.
[7] As bishop he was greedy and violent,[8] unconventional in his habits and joking, a prodigal spender on himself; he is portrayed in very unflattering terms in the 1115 chronicle Monodiae of Guibert of Nogent.
He had Gerard of Quierzy murdered[9] in the very cathedral of Laon.
His election as bishop was contested; he had been hurried into minor orders after the battle and made a canon of Rouen, but it was upheld by Pope Paschal II at the Council of Langres.
[11] Guibert's account of this event alludes to Isengrin, making it of literary-historical value.