Richard of Lincoln

And with a new pope, Henry's most trying year yet as king arguably commenced.

Henry, Theobald, Conan of Brittany, and all of his new men, including his son and heir, William Adeline, his illegitimate sons, Robert Fitzroy, Richard of Lincoln, and Henry Fitzroy, along with the likes of young Stephen of Blois.

Well, as they all fought various raids and skirmishes around eastern and southern Normandy, many of them defensive, word arrived that Count William of Evreux also died.

This was on April 18th.

I mean, what am I missing there? But I guess it doesn't really matter.

Anyway, Orderic Vitalis gives us the unnecessarily vivid description of Juliana jumping from one of the towers into the moat below with her bare buttocks showing, and then riding 60 miles away to join her husband at Pacey, which was also not a very warm welcoming, I'm sure.

Henry subsequently gave Bertoul to Ralph de Gaulle, whose daughter would soon marry into Henry's family, marrying his illegitimate son, Richard of Lincoln, who has a fair bit of fame himself.

And it was Richard, who was a very capable and beloved son to Henry, illegitimate or not, who was Juliana's full-blooded brother.

He'd cornered his rebellious younger brother inside a fortress, battered the walls until the brother gave up, and then forgiven him, and he sent his army home.

Not long afterward, Duke Richard III was dead, and he didn't die alone, since several of the men around him went down with him.

Nobody could say what he'd eaten or what he'd drunk in the days leading up to his passing.

People in Normandy settled on an answer anyway, and they were still repeating it nearly a century and a half later.

And cognac.

So some of his more notable companions included his illegitimate half-siblings, Richard of Lincoln and Matilda, the Countess of Perth.

His cousins, Stephen and Matilda of Blois.

So yes, that's Stephen, but not Stephen's wife, Matilda, but just another Matilda, Stephen's sister.