2. Were it possible to find an authority for calling this personage Edmund, we should be a step nearer history; for a brother, though not a nephew of Edward I., so named, died in gascony during an unsuccessful campaign against the French.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Hence, when the third element of the present Norman population was introduced, all that was not Italian was Welsh-just as it was in Picardy and Orleans, and just as it was not in gascony and Poitou.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
82 Bordeaux, Parliament of gascony at, ii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green