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Geoffrey's and efforts
The king subsequently released Geoffrey from the oath, the initial swearing of which was apparently another of Richard's efforts to keep Geoffrey's possible ambitions towards the English throne in check.

Geoffrey's and Richard
Geoffrey's half-brother Richard I, also known as " Richard Lionheart ", nominated him Archbishop of York after succeeding to the throne of England, probably to force him to become a priest and thus eliminate a potential rival for the throne.
Although Hugh du Puiset, who was Justiciar, was hampering Geoffrey's attempts to collect revenue for the earlier fine, Richard insisted on immediate full payment.
Before Richard left England in May 1194 he appointed Walter as Justiciar ; that summer Walter began an investigation into Geoffrey's actions, which led to Geoffrey's estates being confiscated once again.
Geoffrey appealed to the king, who was then in Maine ; Richard overruled Walter, restored Geoffrey's estates, and pardoned him in return for a payment of 1000 marks and the promise of 1000 more to follow.
Geoffrey protested to the king after Richard forbade Geoffrey's projected journey to Rome and in retaliation the king confiscated Geoffrey's estates once more.
He soon left Geoffrey's service, and served in Henry II's chancery, or writing office, before he entered service with Henry's son Richard.
After John lost the Angevins ' continental territory along with Anjou itself to the Capetians in 1204, the family became known as the House of Plantagenet, adopting Geoffrey's nickname and ruling England until the reign of Richard II, after which the succession was disputed by two cadet branches, the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
Howse Street, Elsecar, was named in honour of Joseph Richard Howse ( local councillor and prospective parliamentary candidate, who died prematurely in 1923 ), Geoffrey's great-uncle ; and Howse's Corner, situated at the junction of Fitzwilliam Street and Wentworth Road, named after the Howse family home and shop, which stood on the site until the late 1960s.

Geoffrey's and were
Thus, for example, around 60 manuscripts are extant containing Welsh-language versions of the Historia, the earliest of which were created in the 13th century ; the old notion that some of these Welsh versions actually underlie Geoffrey's Historia, advanced by antiquarians such as the 18th-century Lewis Morris, has long since been discounted in academic circles.
Early translations and adaptations of Geoffrey's Historia, such as Wace's Norman French Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, were named after Brutus, and the word " Brut " came to mean a chronicle of British history.
" All of Geoffrey's lands were held freely by Leofwin.
In 1173 and early 1174 Geoffrey fought a military campaign in northern England in support of his father's attempts to subdue the Scots, who were supporting the rebellion by Geoffrey's legitimate half-brothers against their father.
Geoffrey's estates were returned to him in July, after paying 800 marks of his fine.
A number of Geoffrey's opponents who were officials in his diocese resigned their offices, and for a short time peace reigned in York.
The Leiden St Louis Psalter is a lavishly illuminated psalter made for the archbishop, probably in northern England in the 1190s, which passed into the hands of Blanche of Castile after Geoffrey's death, and, as religious manuscripts often were, was used to teach the future saint King Louis IX of France how to read, as a 14th-century inscription records.
Geoffrey's version of Constantine was included in the various later adaptations of the Historia, which were widely regarded as authentic in the Middle Ages.

Geoffrey's and by
While the early sources indicate that Horsa died fighting the Britons, no details are provided about Hengist's death until Geoffrey's Historia, which states that Hengist was beheaded by Eldol, the British duke of Gloucester, and buried in an unlocated mound.
How much of Geoffrey's Historia ( completed in 1138 ) was adapted from such earlier sources, rather than invented by Geoffrey himself, is unknown.
While Nennius ' Ambrosius eventually reveals himself to be the son of a Roman consul, Geoffrey's Merlin is begotten on a king's daughter by an incubus.
In Robert's account, as in Geoffrey's Historia, Merlin is begotten by a demon on a virgin as an intended Antichrist.
Robert was inspired by Wace's Roman de Brut, an Anglo-Norman adaptation of Geoffrey's Historia.
Several later works expand on Geoffrey's mention of Gawain's boyhood spent in Rome, the most important of which is the anonymous Medieval Latin romance The Rise of Gawain, Nephew of Arthur, which describes his birth, boyhood and early adventures leading up to his knighting by his uncle.
A few minor references to Uther appear in Old Welsh poems, but his biography was first written down by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae ( History of the Kings of Britain ), and Geoffrey's account of the character was used in most later versions.
( It is possible this Hoel derives from Geoffrey's confused statement that Igraine's eldest daughter had by her first husband Howel which was misunderstood to refer instead to a supposed first husband of Igraine named Howel / Hoel.
Geoffrey's wife was called Aelfeva and her English name suggests that Geoffrey may have acquired his Warwickshire lands through her, by inheritance rather than by confiscation ; she may have been Leofwin's heiress.
He forged a marriage alliance with Brittany by marrying his sister Hawise to Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany and by his own marriage to Geoffrey's sister, Judith.
Geoffrey's story was incorporated into Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles in 1577, where it was found by William Shakespeare and used as the basis of his romance, Cymbeline.
In 1184 Geoffrey's father-in-law died, and he received a share of the de Say inheritance by right of his wife, co-heiress to her father.
However, Geoffrey's brother, King Henry II of England, responded by seizing the Earldom of Richmond, Conan's paternal inheritance, and demanded the return of Nantes.
Another potential problem was Geoffrey's illegitimacy, which normally disbarred a person from holding ecclesiastical office, but that was dealt with by the granting of a papal dispensation.
Geoffrey's ordination as a priest took place at Southwell on 23 September 1189, in a ceremony performed by John the Bishop of Whithorn.
It was at Canterbury that papal assent to Geoffrey's election was secured in December, when Giovanni di Anagni, the papal legate, not only confirmed the election, but rejected the various appeals made by the cathedral chapter against Geoffrey.
Another complication was that the English bishops had appealed to the papacy because Geoffrey had not been consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Longchamp could therefore claim to have been acting on behalf of the other bishops in ordering Geoffrey's arrest.
Simon was supported by the cathedral chapter, who elected him to the office despite Geoffrey's opposition.
Geoffrey had managed to secure a postponement of his case at Rome until 1 November, but was still unable to attend, which led Pope Celestine to order that Geoffrey's suspension should be performed by Hugh of Lincoln.
In some versions of the Brut y Brenhinedd, a series of Welsh versions of Geoffrey's Historia, Catellus is succeeded by his son Coel, who is then succeeded by his own son Porrex II.

Geoffrey's and mention
In the midst of the Arthurian section of the text, Wace was the first to mention the legend of King Arthur's Round Table and the first to ascribe the name Excalibur to Arthur's sword, although on the whole he adds only minor details to Geoffrey's text.
Geoffrey's largely legendary Historia Regum Britanniae expands upon Henry's brief mention, listing Coel as a King of the Britons following the reign of King Asclepiodotus.
Geoffrey's mention of Vortiporius is contained in a brief chapter titled " Wortiporius, being declared king, conquers the Saxons ".

Geoffrey's and duocane
While Frank was giving Geoffrey a blood transfusion to save him, this purged the duocane from Geoffrey's system, restoring both his visibility and his sanity.

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