Verdun--who "favoured Godfrey in all ways"--purchased the castle in order to prevent this and transferred it to St Hubert.

Godfrey supported Henry of Verdun's efforts to institute the Peace of God in his diocese, a movement already active in France to decrease endemic military activity by banning it during select times; those who violated the Peace risked excommunication along with losing their inheritance and belongings. Henry probably wanted to