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 20z MedicEval JMilitary Architecture. Conqueror, and commanded the Norman centre at Hastings, became Earl of Arundel and Shrewsbury, and held the Castle about twenty- three years, till his death. Domesday describes the Castle of Harundel as having, in the time of King Edward, paid annually for the mill, 40s. ; for three " convivia," or entertainments, 20s. ; and " pro uno pasticio," or pasty, 20s. There was also the church of St. Nicholas, or the parish church, and St. Martin's, probably the chapel of the castle. There was also another mill which paid ten bushels of corn. The burgh, port, and shipping paid ^12 or more. It is curious that Arundel, Chichester, Shrewsbury, and the Norman Manor whence Roger derived his territorial designation, each possessed a mound. On William's death in 1088, Earl Roger gave his support to Robert Curthose, whom he invited to land at Arundel. The Prince's sluggishness alienated his English fol- lowers, and the Earl tendered his aid to Rufus. At Earl Roger's death, in 1094, he bequeathed his Sussex earldom, called also "of Chichester," to his younger son Hugh, the Hugh Goch of the Welsh, who held both Arundel and Shrewsbury, stood in oppo- sition to William Rufus, and was slain while repelling pirates Irom the north Welsh coast in 1098. His successor in the English earldom was his eldest brother, who already held the family lordships in Normandy. This was Robert, Earl of Belesme in la Perche, who received at Arundel William Rufus on his arrival from Normandy in 1097. Earl Robert, the wicked son of a wicked mother, was a bold soldier, and an able, though a very cruel man. He built with great rapidity the strong castle of Brugge or Bridgenorth, and that of Montgomery, called by the Welsh Tre-faldwin, from Baldwin, its early seneschal. His career in England was violent and short. Bridgenorth was besieged and taken by Henry I., who brought the wooden turret known as a malvoisin to bear upon its walls. The Earl went into exile in 1102, and died in 11 18. King Henry held Arundel till his death, when it passed in settle- ment to his widow, Adeliza, daughter of Godfrey of Louvaine, Duke of Brabant. The Queen Dowager married William d'Albini, a Norfolk noble, known to chroniclers as "William with the strong hand," the royal dapifer. They received the Empress Maud at Arundel on her landing in 1139, with her brother, the Earl of (Gloucester, and in consequence had to stand an attack from Stephen, to whom, it is said, AdeHza pleaded with success the duties of hos- j)itality, and Maud was allowed to retire to Bristol. D'Albini, how- ever, was, on the whole, a supporter of Stephen, though with great judgment. He advised the accord between Stephen and Henry in 1 153, and signed the compact as "Earl of Chichester.'^ Henry, on his accession, acknowledged the service by a grant of the earldom of Arundel in fee with the third penny of the county of Sussex. Earl William died in 11 76. By Adeliza, who died in 1151, he left a son, also William, the first of four generations of D'Albinis, and of five persons who held the earldom of Arundel, or, as they called it,