Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.

During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury records a story that when the new sheriff of Worcester, Urse d ' Abetot, encroached on the cemetery of the cathedral chapter for Worcester Cathedral, Ealdred pronounced a rhyming curse on him, saying " Thou are called Urse.

Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.

* William of Malmesbury ( c 1095 – c1143 )

William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.

Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.

John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury add some lively detail by suggesting that Edmund had been feasting with his nobles, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd.

" The chronicler William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.

Other material from Thomas of Elmham, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury, later medieval chroniclers, adds little to Bede's account of Justus ' life.

Fulcher's chronicle was very popular and was used as a source by other historians in the west, such as Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.

This interpretation derives from the Chronicle attributed to the 14th-century chronicler of Scotland, John of Fordun, as well as from earlier sources such as William of Malmesbury.

Some Medieval commentators, following William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the Meic Uilleim.

According to William of Malmesbury ( c. 1080 – c.

Around forty years later William of Malmesbury believing the Abbey older, said that David visited Glastonbury only to rededicate the Abbey and donate a travelling altar including a great sapphire.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.

William of Malmesbury in his account of William's death stated that the body was taken to Winchester Cathedral by a few countrymen.

* William of Malmesbury, English historian

** William of Malmesbury, English historian ( b. 1080 )

Historians have puzzled over Edward's intentions for the succession since William of Malmesbury in the early 12th century.

* William of Malmesbury, The History of the English Kings, i, ed. and trans.

William of Malmesbury asserts that Godwin had been overwhelmed " in power and in numbers " by Harold.

The main sources available for discussion of this period include Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae and Nennius's Historia Brittonum, the Annales Cambriae, Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest, and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum as well as " The Descent of the Men of the North " ( Bonedd Gwŷr y Gogledd, in Peniarth MS 45 and elsewhere ) and the Book of Baglan.

There have been relatively few modern attempts to challenge this notion that the Historia Regum Britanniae is primarily Geoffrey's own work, with scholarly opinion often echoing William of Newburgh's late-12th-century comment that Geoffrey " made up " his narrative, perhaps through an " inordinate love of lying ".

Several of the key chronicles were written in the south-west of England, including the Gesta Stephani, or " Acts of Stephen ", and William of Malmesbury's Historia Novella, or " New History ".

These include Robert of Torigni's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and Gervase of Canterbury's works.

William Turner's Historia Avium (" History of Birds "), published at Cologne in 1544, was an early ornithological work from England.

Succeeding sources include ( in chronological order ) William of Poitiers's Gesta Guillelmi ( written between 1071 and 1077 ), The Bayeux Tapestry ( created between 1070 and 1077 ), and the much later Chronicle of Battle Abbey, the chronicles written by William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, and Eadmer's Historia Novorum in Anglia embellishes the story further, with the final result being a William whose tactical genius was at a high level that he failed to display in any other battle.

This is the interpretation offered by William himself in the Historia, and it was taken as fact by later historians.

Much of the Historia was finished before William left to attend the Lateran Council, but new additions and corrections were made after his return in 1180, perhaps because he now realized that European readers would also be interested in the history of the kingdom.

The end of the Historia coincides with the massacre of the Latins in Constantinople and the chaos that followed the coup of Andronicus I Comnenus, and in his description of those events, William was certainly not immune to the extreme anti-Greek rhetoric that was often found in Western European sources.

It is unknown what title William himself gave his chronicle, although one group of manuscripts uses Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum and another uses Historia Ierosolimitana.

* Peter W. Edbury, " The French translation of William of Tyre's Historia: the manuscript tradition.

Death of John II Komnenos, and crowning of Manuel I Komnenos ( from the Manuscript of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, Israel, 13th century, Bibliothèque nationale de France ).

* William of Tyre, Historia Rerum In Partibus Transmarinis Gestarum ( A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea ), translated by E. A. Babock and A. C. Krey ( Columbia University Press, 1943 ).

Several of the key chronicles were written in the south-west of England, including the Gesta Stephani, or " Acts of Stephen ", and William of Malmesbury's Historia Novella, or " New History ".

His Historia Placitorum Coronæ, dealing with capital offences against the Crown, is considered " of the highest authority ", while his Analysis of the Common Law is noted as the first published history of English law and a strong influence on William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England.

William of Tyre discovers Baldwin's first symptoms of leprosy ( MS of L ' Estoire d ' Eracles ( French translation of William of Tyre's Historia ), painted in France, 1250s.

( MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C.

( From MS of William of Tyre's Historia and Old French Continuation, painted in Acre, 13C.

Likewise, William of Newburgh praises Malcolm, " the most Christian king of the Scots ", highly in his Historia Rerum Anglicarum.

* William of Tyre ( d. 1186 ), Historia, ed.