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46 HISTORY OF AYRSHIRE
open rebellion. King Henry resolved to put him down.
He besieged him in his castle of Arundel, which he
ultimately surrendered on being allowed to depart into
Normandy ; the which he did, " boiling with rage and
overwhelmed with grief." Still experience had not
taught him wisdom. He recommenced his tyrannies,
set Henry of England, Duke of Normandy, at defiance,
was arrested and imprisoned, first in Cherbourg and
afterwards in the castle of Warham in Norfolk, where he
was kept in such strict and secluded confinement that
none could tell the day of his death. This famous man
is described as having been of a subtle genius, deceitful,
wily, and a fluent speaker ; in person stout, and of great
strength ; intrepid and formidable in war ; cruel and
avaricious ; skilled in engineering ; full of resource in
difficult affairs ; capable of undergoing the greatest
personal fatigue. The third son of Earl Roger, Roger
de Poietou, became Earl of Lancaster, but lost his
possessions because of his having taken part with his
brother in the defence of Arundel Castle, and retired to
Normandy. The fourth son was Arnulph, Earl of
Pembroke, who married, in iioi. Princess I.afracoth,
the daughter of Murtach O'Brien, King of Munster.
From this marriage the Scottish Montgomeries claim to
be descended. King Murtach, conceiving a deadly
hatred against the Normans, carried off his daughter,
and pursued Arnulph, her husband, with such unrelenting
hostility that he fled to Normandy, where he lived for
twenty years without having any fixed place of residence.
In his old age he married again and expired at the
wedding feast, leaving, says the historian, " the guests
to listen to funeral dirges instead of to an epithalamium."
Earl Roger had a fifth son, Philip, who was called the
Clerk, or Grammarian, a proof that he was a man of
scholarly tastes. He could fight, however, as well as
read and write, for, in the first Crusade of 1096, he slew
a Moslem champion in single combat. Roger and
Mabel had four daughters. When Mabel was slain,
the Earl wedded a second time. His wife was of the