Note 085
From Chapter 58 of the Decline & Fall

Verumtamen dicunt se esse de Francorum generatione; et quia nullus homo naturaliter debet esse miles nisi Franci et Turci ( Gesta Francorum , p. 7).

The same community of blood and valour is attested by Archbishop Baldric (p. 99).

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