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[centred] Ac

Daughter of William the
Conqueror.

[crossed out] (Ceal)

[crossed out] (Ceac)

Caecilia, eldest daughter of W. the Con.
Dedicated to the cloister by the will of her
father. The unfortunate but generous Duke Robert
ever cherished with fond affection the companion
of his early childhood Caecilia died at the age
of seventy years 1126 - and in the seventy sixth of the
reign of her brother Henry 1st

[crossed out] (Const) Matilda second daughter ... Disapproved
yet in her early affections, a fresh alliance was
formed for her by her ambitious father with
Alphonso the Valiant, the sixth of Leon and
First of Castile ... Her dread of her Spanish
spouse was so excessive "That she supplicated
the Omnipotent with floods of tears that [torn page] h[e]
would rather take her to himself than [torn page] p[er]-
mit her to fulfil the detested union [torn page] [...].
She set out on her journey towards Sp[ain] [torn page]
with a brilliant cortege, but had sca[rce]-
ly reached the frontier when she sick[ened]
and died. Her death is universally
attributed to a broken heart."

Constance. 3rd daughter said to have been
the most gifted of W's daughters born about the
year 1057. Married to Alan duke of Bretagne ...
died 1119