Crossword-Solution: EPTE 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

James's Chronykyll (which was the paper of news he of Ivanhoe took in) of “another glorious triumph”--“Defeat of the French near Blois”--“Splendid victory at Epte, and narrow escape of the French King:” the which deeds of arms the learned scribes had to narrate.

Richard listened eagerly for his name, and was refreshed at the sound of the boyish voice which pronounced, "I, Alberic de Montemar, am thy liegeman and vassal for my castle and barony of Montemar sur Epte." When Alberic moved away, Richard followed him with his eye as far as he could to his place in the Cathedral, and was taken by surprise when he found the next Baron kneeling before him.

When they crossed the Epte, the King would have Richard in the same boat with him, and sitting close to Louis, and talking eagerly about falcons and hounds, the little Duke passed the boundary of his own dukedom.

How earnest and sorrowful were the prayers offered at Centeville may well be imagined; and at Montemar sur Epte the anxiety was scarcely less.

Clair sur Epte, which had been long in dispute; so that Alberic became, indisputably, a vassal of Normandy.