Witness: Maurice, bishop of London; William, bishop-elect of
Winchester; Gerard, bishop of Herefore; Henry the earl; Simon the
earl; Walter Giffard; Robert of Montfort-sur-Risle; Roger Bigot;
Eudo the steward; Robert, son of Haimo; and Robert Malet.
At London when I was crowned. Farewell."
Henry took these promises seriously, which resulted in peace and
justice. Royal justice became a force to be reckoned with by the
multiplication of justices. Henry had a great respect for legality
and the forms of judicial action. He became known as the "Lion of
Justice".
The payment of queen's gold, that is of a mark of gold to the
queen out of every hundred marks of silver paid, in the way of
fine or other feudal incident, to the king, probably dates from
Henry I's reign.
A woman could inherit a fief if she married. The primary way for a
man to acquire control of land was to marry an heiress. If a man
were in a lower station than she was, he had to pay for his new
social status as well as have royal permission. A man could also
be awarded land which had escheated to the King. If a noble woman
wanted to hold land in her own right, she had to make a payment to
the King.
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