 The Beaumonts alleged that Roger and his family were fortifying the castles they held in preparation for turning them over to Matilda.They urged the king to confiscate the castles before they were lost.Although the "Gesta Stephani", or "Deeds of King Stephen", a medieval chronicle of the events of Stephen's reign, alleges that Roger was disloyal to Stephen, the evidence is against such action by Roger, as he had been an opponent of Matilda since 1126, when she was first put forward as her father's heir.