[Footnote 92: The most authentic writers, William of Apulia.
(l. v. 277,) Jeffrey Malaterra, (l. iii. c. 41, p. 589,) and
Romuald of Salerno, (Chron. in Muratori, Script. Rerum Ital.
tom. vii.,) are ignorant of this crime, so apparent to our
countrymen William of Malmsbury (l. iii. p. 107) and Roger
de Hoveden, (p. 710, in Script. post Bedam) and the latter
can tell, how the just Alexius married, crowned, and burnt
alive, his female accomplice. The English historian is
indeed so blind, that he ranks Robert Guiscard, or Wiscard,
among the knights of Henry I, who ascended the throne
fifteen years after the duke of Apulia's death.]