Biography of Elias La Flèche De Baugency I Count Maine -1110

History of the Dukes of Normandy by William of Jumieges. Meanwhile, the people of Maine, seeing that Duke Robert was occupied with so many disturbances in Normandy, took counsel with Elias, son of [his father] John of La Flèche, a brave and capable man and most powerful in that province, that he should marry the daughter of a certain Lombard count [Albert Azzo II Margrave of Milan (age 81)], namely the grand-daughter of the former [his grandfather] Count Herbert of Maine by his eldest daughter [Herbert "Wakedog" Maine I Count Maine]. They judged that, by this means, they might be able to shake from their necks the yoke of the dukes of Normandy. In persuading him, they did not need to labour long, for the man already named had long anticipated their suggestion by his own desire, and, without delay, brought about the fulfillment of their will in this matter. Neither he nor his advisers were frightened away from this attempt at rebellion, either by remembering that the region of Le Mans had from ancient times been under the authority of the dukes of Normandy, or by recalling that in our own memory the most noble Duke William of Normandy, afterward the most fortunate conqueror of the English, had freed the people of Le Mans from the oppression of Geoffrey Martel the elder, and, having protected them with his own strength, had governed them as his own people so long as he lived, and finally, when dying, committed them to the rule of his successors. And so it came to pass that shortly after the death of that same King, this Duke Robert, of whom we now speak, at the very beginning of his rule, when they already attempted acts of rebellious defiance within his borders, led an army of Normans against them and subdued them.

Interea Cenomannenses advertentes ducem Robertum tot perturbationibus in Northmannia occupatum, consilium ineunt cum Helia Joannis de Fleca, viro forti et industrio et in illa provincia potentissimo, ut filiam cujusdam comitis Langobardiæ, neptem videlicet Hereberti quondam Cenomannensis comitis ex primogenita filia in matrimonium ducat; existimantes hac occasione se posse excutere a sua cervice jugum dominationis ducum Northmanniæ. In quo persuadendo diutius immorari illis necesse non fuit, cum jam nominatus vir illorum admonitionem dudum suo voto præveniens, voluntatem eorum super hoc negotio, prætermissa ornni dilatione, ad effectum perduxit. Nec ipsum nec consiliarios suos, ab hac rebellionis præsumptione revocavit deterrendo quod antiquitus sub Northmannorum ducum ditione regio Cenomannica egit, vel quod nostra memoria nobilissimus dux Northmannorum Willelmus, postea vero felicissimus Anglorum expugnator, eosdem Cenomannenses de oppressione Gaufridi Martelli senioris liberans, alii suæ protectionis munitos, quoad vixit illos ut proprios rexit, ac suis successoribus regendos moriens dimisit. Unde factum est ut paulo post mortem ipsius regis idem dux Robertus, de quo nunc sermo est, in principio sui ducatus jam tunc rebellionis contumaciam attentantes in ipsis suis finibus, ducto exercitu Northmannorum eos compescuit.