Rise & Griffin princes of Wales.] aduenture changed into peace.  The Welshmen in deed with their princes Rise and Griffin wrought some trouble, but still they were subdued, and in the end both the said Rise and Griffin were brought vnto confusion:  although in the meane time they did much hurt, and namelie Griffin, who with aid of some Irishmen, with whome he was alied, about this time entred into the Seuerne sea, and tooke preies about the riuer of Wie:  and after returned without anie battell to him offered.

[Sidenote:  1049. Simon Dun.] About the same time, to wit, in the yeere 1049, the emperor Henrie the third made warres against Baldwine earle of Flanders, and for that he wished to haue the sea stopped, that the said earle should not escape by flight that waie foorth, he sent to king Edward, willing him to keepe the sea with some number of ships.  King Edward furnishing a [Sidenote:  Hermanus. Contractus. Ia.  Meir.] nauie, lay with the same at Sandwich, and so kept the seas on that side, till the emperor had his will of the earle.  At the same time, Swaine, sonne of earle Goodwine came into the realme, and traitorouslie slue his coosen Bearne (as before is said) the which [Sidenote:  Simon Dun.] trauelled to agree him with the king.  Also Gosipat Clappa, who had left his wife at Bruges in Flanders, comming amongst other of the Danish pirats, which had robbed in the coasts of Kent & Essex, as before ye haue heard, receiued his wife, and departed backe into Denmarke with six ships, leauing the residue, being 23 behind him.

[Sidenote:  Fabian. 1051.] About the tenth yeere of king Edwards reigne, Eustace earle of Bullongne, that was father vnto the valiant Godfrey of Bullongne, & Baldwin, both afterward kings of Hierusalem, came ouer into [Sidenote:  Matth.  West. The earle of Flanders commeth into England. Ran.  Higd. Wil.  Malm.] England in the moneth of September, to visit his brother in law king [Sidenote:  Goda sister to K. Edward. Wil.  Malm.] Edward, whose sister named Goda, he had maried, she then being the widow of Gualter de Maunt.  He found the king at Glocester, and being there ioifullie receiued, after he had once dispatched such matters for the which he chieflie came, he tooke leaue, and returned [Sidenote:  Douer saith Matth.  West.] homeward.  But at Canturburie one of his herbingers, dealing roughlie with one of the citizens about a lodging, which he sought to haue rather by force than by intreatance, occasioned his owne death.  Whereof when the erle was aduertised, he hasted thither to reuenge the slaughter of his seruant, and slue both that citizen which had killed his man, and eighteene others.