Geoffrey Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother to " Joseph and Benjamin of old ," says of Roger: " He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel.

He left the islands with many who wished to join him and so many were on his ship that it nearly sunk, according to Geoffrey Malaterra.

* Geoffrey Malaterra, " The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of his Brother Duke Robert Guiscard ", ( Goffredo Malaterra, fl.

He was succeeded first by his son Fulk II the Good ( 941 or 942 – c. 960 ), and then by the son of the latter, Geoffrey I Grisegonelle ( Greytunic ) ( c. 960 – 21 July 987 ), who inaugurated a policy of expansion, having as its objects the extension of the boundaries of the ancient countship and the reconquest of those parts of it which had been annexed by the neighbouring states ; for, though western Anjou had been recovered from the dukes of Brittany since the beginning of the 10th century, in the east all the district of Saumur had already by that time fallen into the hands of the counts of Blois and Tours.

An estimate by Geoffrey le Baker deemed credible by Prestwich states that 4, 000 French knights were killed.

Geoffrey states that Vortigern was the successor to Constans, the son of the usurping emperor Constantine III.

Historian Geoffrey Best called the period from 1856 to 1909 the law of war ’ s “ epoch of highest repute .” The defining aspect of this period was the establishment, by states, of a positive legal or legislative foundation ( i. e., written ) superseding a regime based primarily on religion, chivalry, and customs.

Geoffrey states that Britain was in civil crisis after the death of Gracianus, so the people called for help from their cousins in Brittany.

For example Geoffrey Dean states that the Mars Effect is supported by the 303 sports-champions CSICOP test.

An even older British connection to Gog and Magog appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's influential 12th century Historia Regum Britanniae, which states that Goemagot was a giant slain by the eponymous Cornish hero Corin or Corineus.

Geoffrey Martin in his excavation work at Saqqara states that the burial of Horemheb's second wife Mutnedjmet was located at the bottom of a shaft to the rooms of Horemheb's Saqqara tomb.

# Argument From Consciousness: This argument, suggested by Professor Geoffrey Jefferson in his 1949 Lister Oration states that " not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt, and not by the chance fall of symbols, could we agree that machine equals brain.

Local folklore suggests it was King John who provided the name ; there is certainly evidence of King John granting the manor at Kingshill to Hugh de Gournay in 1213, although this same document states that the land was previously possessed by Geoffrey fitzPeter.

The hamlet name ' Kingshill ' means a hill in possession of the king, which local folklore suggests was King John ; there is certainly evidence of King John granting the manor at Kingshill to Hugh de Gournay in 1213, although this same document states that the land was previously possessed by Geoffrey fitzPeter.

One twelfth century account of this is Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, where he states Merlin's prophecies.

Gerald of Wales states that Geoffrey was reluctant to accept York, but another chronicler, Benedict of Peterborough relates that Geoffrey quickly took control of the archiepiscopal estates.

These lines conflict somewhat with the ancestry laid out by Geoffrey of Monmouth in which he states Ascanius is the grandfather of Brutus.

British legend, aided by Geoffrey of Monmouth, states that Constans was elected by the Britons as king after Constantine's death.

Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain also states that Arthur led the forces at Badon.

Early in the Historia Geoffrey states that Mordred has married Arthur's wife Guanhumara, but does not indicate whether Mordred's sons were the product of this union.

As Dr. Geoffrey Martin states:

In his book Geoffrey Ingleton states Norfolk “… started life as the longboat of HMS Sirius ” This is unfounded, it is impossible to widen a boat Ingleton used the above as his reference.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

These were followed by Gregory Benford's The Martian Race ( 1999 ), Geoffrey A. Landis's Mars Crossing ( 2000 ), and Robert Zubrin's First Landing ( 2002 ), which took as their starting points the smaller and more focussed expedition strategies evolved in the late 1990s, mostly building on the concepts of Mars Direct.

In France, Geoffrey of Anjou took advantage of the situation by re-invading Normandy.

Once news of Stephen's capture reached him, Geoffrey of Anjou invaded Normandy again and, in the absence of Waleran of Beaumont, who was still fighting in England, Geoffrey took all the duchy south of the river Seine and east of the river Risle.

At the same time, continuing in this quarter also the work of his father ( who in 1025 took prisoner Herbert Wakedog and only set him free on condition of his doing him homage ), Geoffrey succeeded in reducing the countship of Maine to complete dependence on himself.

But Fulk le Réchin ( the Cross-looking ), brother of Geoffrey the Bearded, who had at first been contented with an appanage consisting of Saintonge and the châtellenie of Vihiers, having allowed Saintonge to be taken in 1062 by the duke of Aquitaine, took advantage of the general discontent aroused in the countship by the unskilful policy of Geoffrey to make himself master of Saumur ( 25 February 1067 ) and Angers ( 4 April ), and cast Geoffrey into prison at Sablé.

In 1139 Geoffrey took Mirebeau, and in 1142 Champtoceaux, but in 1145 a new revolt broke out, this time under the leadership of Elias, the count's own brother, who, again with the assistance of Robert of Sable, laid claim to the countship of Maine.

Geoffrey took Elias prisoner, forced Robert of Sable to beat a retreat, and reduced the other barons to reason.

In Normandy, Geoffrey secured all fiefdoms west and south of the Seine by 1143 ; in January 1144, he crossed the Seine and took Rouen without resistance.

The original scriptwriters were Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason, who were also working on the series Dick Barton whose popularity partly inspired The Archers and whose slot in the schedules it eventually took.

Nonetheless, Geoffrey and Matilda took the opportunity to march into southern Normandy and seize a number of key castles ; there they stopped, unable to advance further.

In France, Geoffrey took advantage of the situation by re-invading Normandy.

Meanwhile, Geoffrey of Anjou invaded Normandy again and, in the absence of Waleran of Beaumont, who was still fighting in England, Geoffrey took all the duchy south of the River Seine and east of the Risle.

The manor is said to have been given to Bishop Erkenwald about the year 691 for himself and his successors in the see of London, and Holinshed relates that the Bishop of London was lodging in his manor place in 1141 when Geoffrey de Mandeville, riding out from the Tower of London, took him prisoner.

In fact, Huxley took the place of his old tutor Geoffrey Smith, who had been killed in the battle of the Somme on the Western Front.

When the Crusaders took Constantinople ( 1204 ), they found some Paulicians, whom the historian Geoffrey of Villehardouin calls Popelicans.

The United Kingdom's first ball bearing factory was established at New Street and Rectory Lane in Chelmsford in 1898 by cousins Geoffrey and Charles Barrett and bankrolled by American ball bearing machine manufacturer Ernst Gustav Hoffmann from whom the Company took its name.

At the same time, Geoffrey Talbot, de Lacy's ally and Sybil's half brother, took the castle of Hereford and Weobley.

Beeching and his elder brother Geoffrey attended Imperial College of Science & Technology in London where both read physics and took First Class honours degrees.

His own marriage took place on 11 November 1430, ( date of licence ), to ( as her third husband ) Alice ( 1404 – 1475 ), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, and granddaughter of the notable poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his wife Philippa ( de ) Roet.