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Geoffrey actually seems to have conflated the historical Constantine III with an unrelated Cornish king of the same name, Custennin Gorneu ( the Welsh name Custennin is derived from Latin Constaninus ; it is possible that Geoffrey picked up the name from a Welsh Arthurian genealogy resembling those found in Bonedd yr Arwyr # 30a and Mostyn MS 117 # 5 ), which has led to much confusion among modern scholars ; beyond their names, Geoffrey's fictional Constantine does not resemble the historical one.
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It has been speculated that “ one or two ” of these children were actually fathered by John of Gaunt .< ref >“ Chaucer, Geoffrey .” Encyclopædia Britannica.
Geoffrey Pyke managed to convince Lord Mountbatten of the worth of his project ( actually prior to the invention of pykrete ) some time around 1942, and trials were made in two locations in Alberta in Canada.
While the knot is alleged to have actually been used by highwaymen, this claim is rejected by knot expert Geoffrey Budworth who stated, " there is no evidence to substantiate the reputation of the highwayman's hitch as a quick-getaway-knot for robbers on horseback.
Peter of Blois wrote that a number of monarchs considered Geoffrey as a possible successor for their kingdoms in Italy or the Holy Land, and that he was actually offered the throne of Jerusalem by Heraclius, the Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Nigel Molesworth is a fictional character, the supposed author of a series of books ( actually written by Geoffrey Willans ), with cartoon illustrations by Ronald Searle.
Henry the young was crowned King of England in 1170 though he never actually ruled ; Richard the Lionheart became Duke of Aquitaine in 1172 ; Geoffrey became Duke of Brittany in 1181 ; John became Lord of Ireland in 1185 ; while Leonora ( born in 1161 ) was promised to Alfonso VII with Gascony as dowry during the campaign against Toulouse in 1170.
For example, in 1769 the antiquary William Borlase wrote the following, which is actually a summary of a passage from Geoffrey iii: 1:
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Certainly, Geoffrey seems to have made use of the list of Arthur's twelve battles against the Saxons found in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, along with the battle of Camlann from the Annales Cambriae and the idea that Arthur was still alive.
Among medieval literary texts, Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde plays a special role because Chaucer's usage seems to challenge the truth value of proverbs by exposing their epistemological unreliability.
" While Geoffrey Dean claims that the Mars Effect can be replicated he mentions that Gauquelin failed to “ observe a consistent Mars effect for sports champions born after 1950 ” – which seems to be an argument against the previous statement.
The Parson's Tale seems, from the evidence of its prologue, to have been intended as the final tale of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetic cycle The Canterbury Tales.
Geoffrey of Monmouth seems to recall this earlier figure in the king he called Lot or Loth in his Historia Regum Britanniae.
His son Geoffrey seems not to have been involved in politics, although he held an estate in Dorset of 18 and a half hides.
The Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, a hagiography of the Breton saint Goeznovius that claims to date from 1019, includes a brief segment dealing with Arthur and Vortigern: this early vita is one of only five insular saints ' lives and two Breton ones that include a mention of Arthur that seems to be independent of Geoffrey of Monmouth's myth-making in Historia Regum Britanniae.
With the support of his father's adversaires, Geoffrey seems to have achieved recognition from his father and from 1103 styled himself " count " ( comes in the Latin of the day ) and took control of the government.
Isolated on marshy wetlands, the village seems to have avoided the travails of Kingston ( a strategic garrison town often pillaged ) and remained a relatively insignificant settlement of farming Manors, although there must have been at least one residence of note, for the Chancery Rolls of 1212 record that King John was entertained at Ditton by Geoffrey Fitz Pierre, the Chief Justice ( writes Burchett ).
The similar phrase " to set the world on six and seven ", used by Geoffrey Chaucer in his Troilus and Criseyde, dates about the mid 1380's and seems from its context to mean " to hazard the world " or " to risk one's life ".
In the Mabinogion tale of Lludd and Llefelys, which seems heavily influenced by Geoffrey of Monmouth's work, he is the ruler of Britain while his brother Llefelys ruled Gaul.
Christopher H. Derrick of Geoffrey Bles publishers, presumably in 1963 and before Lewis ’ s death, wrote a proposal for a book that was to include “ Religion and Rocketry ,” stating that “ This essay seems to have been written in rebuttal of an argument which is only likely to be brought forward by a rather silly minority ( though an academically distinguished one )…” Hoyle would have been part of that academically distinguished, but silly, minority.
Concerning C & P, Geoffrey has his ear to the ground but seems happy not to have climbed to a position of greater responsibility and higher stress.
Chaucer seems to have done well from his father's standing ( as both a poet and also an administrator ); this despite suggestions that Geoffrey Chaucer fell out of favour with Henry IV.
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In 2007, Geoffrey Robertson QC alleged that Phillip's remains are no longer in St Nicholas Church, Bathampton and have been lost: "... Captain Arthur Phillip is not where the ledger stone says he is: it may be that he is buried somewhere outside, it may simply be that he is simply lost.
Other places in Britain with names related to " Camel " have also been suggested, such as Camelford in Cornwall, located down the River Camel from where Geoffrey places Camlann, the scene of Arthur's final battle.
Dennett's theories have had a significant influence on the work of evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller.
Eleanor appears to have taken an ambivalent attitude towards these affairs: for example, Geoffrey of York, an illegitimate son of Henry and a prostitute named Ykenai, was acknowledged by Henry as his child and raised at Westminster in the care of the Queen.
" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.
Hengist — here Geoffrey notes whose " years and wisdom entitled him to precedence "— responds for the company, stating that they have come from their homeland of Saxony, and that they had come to offer their services to Vortigern or some other prince.
Dr. Geoffrey E. Hill of Auburn University and Dr. Daniel Mennill of the University of Windsor have revealed a collection of evidence that the birds may still exist in the cypress swamps of the Florida panhandle.
Many of the later sources may also have formed part of a propaganda effort designed to create a history for the people of Ireland that could bear comparison with the mythological descent of their British invaders from the founders of Rome that was promulgated by Geoffrey of Monmouth and others.
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 ".
Geoffrey Ashe is one dissenter from this view, believing that Geoffrey's narrative is partially derived from a lost source telling of the deeds of a 5th-century British king named Riotamus, this figure being the original Arthur, although historians and Celticists have been reluctant to follow Ashe in his conclusions.
As Taylor and Brewer have noted, this return to the medieval " chronicle tradition "' of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Historia Brittonum is a recent trend which became dominant in Arthurian literature in the years following the outbreak of the Second World War, when Arthur's legendary resistance to Germanic invaders struck a chord in Britain.
Philosophers, such as Fiona Cowie and Barbara Scholz with Geoffrey Pullum have also argued against certain nativist claims in support of empiricism.
* The tales of King Midas have been told by many with some variations: by John Dryden ; by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Wife of Bath's Tale ; making Midas ' queen the betrayer of the secret ( as Midas ' wife, Aristotle names Demodike ( or Hermodike ) of Kyme ; Eudemus fr.
Critics of this view argue that Oxford nor any other writer is not here identified as a concealed writer, but as the first in a list of known modern writers whose works have already been " made public ", " of which number is first " Oxford, adding to the publicly acknowledged literary tradition dating back to Geoffrey Chaucer.
Henry II planned to divide his and his wife's territories between their sons, of which there were three at the time ; Henry would become King of England and have control of Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine from his mother and become Count of Poitiers, and Geoffrey would get Brittany through marriage alliance with Constance, the heiress to the region.
Some hard SF authors have distinguished themselves as working scientists, including Gregory Benford, Geoffrey A. Landis and David Brin, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge.
Geoffrey Miller proposes that sexual selection might have contributed by creating evolutionary modules such as Archaeopteryx feathers as sexual ornaments, at first.
Geoffrey Miller, drawing on some of Darwin's largely neglected ideas about human behavior, has hypothesized that many human behaviors not clearly tied to survival benefits, such as humor, music, visual art, verbal creativity, and some forms of altruism, are courtship adaptations that have been favored through sexual selection.
Professor Geoffrey Wainwright OBE, FSA, president of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Professor Timothy Darvill, OBE of Bournemouth University have suggested that Stonehenge was a place of healing – the primeval equivalent of Lourdes.
Ockham and his works have been discussed as a possible influence on several late medieval literary figures and works, especially Geoffrey Chaucer, but also Jean Molinet, the Gawain Poet, François Rabelais, John Skelton, Julian of Norwich, the York and Townely Plays, and Renaissance romances.
Past chairmen have included Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Cabinet Minister Geoffrey Howe, Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont and former British Telecom chairman Christopher Bland.
After Henry II's death in 1189 the countship, together with the rest of his dominions, passed to his son Richard I of England, but on the death of the latter in 1199, Arthur of Brittany ( born in 1187 ) laid claim to the inheritance, which ought, according to him, to have fallen to his father Geoffrey, fourth son of Henry II, in accordance with the custom by which " the son of the eldest brother should succeed to his father's patrimony.
He married attorney Lisa Hoffman ( née Gottsegen ) in October 1980 ; they have four children – Jacob Edward ( born March 20, 1981 ), Rebecca Lillian ( b. March 17, 1983 ), Maxwell Geoffrey ( born August 30, 1984 ), and Alexandra Lydia ( born October 27, 1987 ).
This story appears to have influenced later European tales such as Adenes Le Roi's Cleomades and " The Squire's Prologue and Tale " told in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
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