ROLFGANGER AND HIS COMRADES:--Rolfganger's banishment--Settles in France--Ludicrous incident during the ceremony of Rolfganger's taking the oath of fealty to Charles the Simple WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR:--His birth and parentage--Duke Robert's pride in him--Is declared successor to Robert the Devil--Duke Robert's death--Opposition to William's succession--Conspiracy headed by Bessi and Cotentin--William flees from them--Defeat of the conspirators, and accession of William to the ducal throne of Normandy--His cruelty--Good qualities of William…
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