Eudo Dapifer (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Eudo Dapifer or Eudo 'le Dapifer' de Rie (1047c - 1120) was a Norman aristocrat favoured by William the Conqueror. There is no satisfactory evidence of this celebrated Norman having fought at Senlac, although it has been suggested that Wace may have designated him as the Sire de Preaux -- "Cil de Praels," of which Eudo was undoubtedly possessed in 1070. M. le Prevost, therefore, who himself furnishes us with this information, for which he acknowledges his obligation to M. Henault, is rather inconsistent in at the same time charging the poor poet with "a gross anachronism," on the ground that the house of Preaux was a junior branch of the family of Cailli, which had only just been detached from it at the period Wace wrote, A.D. 1160; for if the evidence ("titre") discovered by M. Henault be trustworthy, Eudo Sire de Preaux in 1070 may well have been so four years previously, and at any rate we know that he died in his Castle of Preaux in 1120, which is of itself a sufficient answer to M. le Prevost's objection, and as he himself records that fact, his note on the subject is incomprehensible.