[1] After this, bicause he was in despaire to haue is|sue by his second wife, about Whitsuntide he sent o|uer his daughter Maud the empresse into Norman|die, that she might be married vnto Geffrey Plan|tagenet earle of Aniou, and in August after he fol|lowed himselfe. Now the matter went so forward, that the mariage was celebrated betwixt the said earle and empresse vpon the first sundaie in Aprill, which fell vpon the third of the moneth, and in the 27. of his reigne.