but all that they can do is to join the invaders after they have
entered the land. William is still only making his way to the
universal good will of his duchy: but he is fast making it.

There is, first of all, an obscure tale of a revolt of an unfixed
date, but which must have happened between 1048 and 1053. The
rebel, William Busac of the house of Eu, is said to have defended
the castle of Eu against the duke and to have gone into banishment
in France. But the year that followed William's visit to England
saw the far more memorable revolt of William Count of Arques. He
had drawn the Duke's suspicions on him, and he had to receive a
ducal garrison in his great fortress by Dieppe. But the garrison
betrayed the castle to its own master. Open revolt and havoc
followed, in which Count William was supported by the king and by
several other princes. Among them was Ingelram Count of Ponthieu,
husband of the duke's sister Adelaide. Another enemy was Guy Count
of Gascony, afterwards Duke William the Eighth of Aquitaine. What
quarrel a prince in the furthest corner of Gaul could have with the
Duke of the Normans does not appear; but neither Count William nor
his allies could withstand the loyal Normans and their prince.
Count Ingelram was killed; the other princes withdrew to devise
greater efforts against Normandy. Count William lost his castle
and part of his estates, and left the duchy of his free will. The
Duke's politic forbearance at last won him the general good will of
his subjects. We hear of no more open revolts till that of
William's own son many years after. But the assaults of foreign
enemies, helped sometimes by Norman traitors, begin again the next
year on a greater scale.