 Notker even considered moving the seat of his diocese there.The story that Count Lambert of Leuven challenged Notker's right to the county and fought a war with Liège, in which the bishop ravaged the "pagus" of Brabant is a late medieval invention from Jean d'Outremeuse's "Ly Myreur des Histors", which contains many false stories about the counts of Huy.In the eleventh century, the bishops seem to have appointed lay counts to act on their behalf, a power specifically granted them in 985.