medieval-women:Extract of a translated letter from Adela of Normandy to the Monks of Bonneval in 110
medieval-women:Extract of a translated letter from Adela of Normandy to the Monks of Bonneval in 1109.“I, countess Adela… decreed by the notice of this charter how I strove to emend the injury I had done to those monks lest those who succeed me should presume to do anything similar. For at one time I was angry at them because of one of my men whom their servants had killed and as if in revenge I ordered a tax levied on the town of Bonneval. The abbot and monks did not take this well, and came to me and showed me the testimony of old writings that did not permit me or anyone to do this. But even then, I was not pacified, and anger led me on to persist in that purpose for some time.But they, with insistent and assiduous prayers that I not introduce a new and harmful custom into their town, as my anger was appeased, brought me to repent what I had done and make the satisfaction the monks sought. I came before the altar and offered a pledge, confessed before those who were present, and promised it would not be done any more.”Epistolae -- source link
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