"That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal;" This quote from the English Bill of Rights would have influenced the American colonists to think that they could make requests of the king without fear of getting into trouble for it may meet with the monarch only when accused of a crime and found guilty had no right to question the monarch's actions, laws, or punishments should be happy with their current situation under the British monarch

In 911, a group of vikings lead by rollo besieged paris and chartres. after a victory near chartres on 26 august, charles decided to negotiate with rollo. the talks were led by hervé, the archbishop of reims. this resulted in the treaty of saint-clair-sur-epte, which granted rollo and his soldiers all the land between the river epte and the sea. it also granted him brittany, "for his livelihood". at the time, brittany was an independent land which france had not been able to conquer. in exchange, rollo promised the king his loyalty and military assistance when needed. also rollo also agreed to be baptised and to marry gisela, the king's daughter. the territory given rollo is about the same as upper normandy. this would grow to become normandy under rollo's descendants. - wikepedia