Sources
Wace used as sources for his history of the Dukes of Normandy:
- Gesta Normannorum Ducum
- De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum by Dudo of Saint-Quentin
- Gesta Guillelmi by William of Poitiers
- Gesta regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury
- Brevis relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comtie Normannorum
- oral tradition, including information from his father, and his own eyewitness
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