It is interesting to note that the fanciful derivation of the name Veronica from the words Vera Icon ( eikon ) " true image " dates back to the " Otia Imperialia " ( iii 25 ) of Gervase of Tilbury ( fl.

This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, and perhaps in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.

His former chaplain, Gervase of Tilbury, said that " his death was the end of everything knightly ".

A 12th-century writer, Gervase of Tilbury, wrote in his Latin geography that " Poland is bordered in one side with Russia, which is also called Ruthenia, as you may see from the following phrase of Lucan …" The original Latin text: Polonia in uno sui capite contingit Russiam, quae et Ruthenia, de qua Lucanus: Solvuntur flavi longa statione Rutheni.

This is mentioned in Banks and Binns ' introduction to the Otia Imperialia, a 13th century work by Gervase of Tilbury.

* 1228 ( probable ): Gervase of Tilbury, lawyer, statesman and writer ( born c. 1150 )

Gervase of Tilbury or Gervasius Tilberiensis ( ca.

He adds that Gervase came from West Tilbury – ‘ he was born theare ’.

Firstly, it was into Henry IIs hands that the manor of West Tilbury Hall was taken, after its tenant in chief, William of Essex, defaulted in the King ’ s service against the Welsh at the battle of Conseyeth in 1163, when Gervase would have been about 10 or 15.

The arguments for Gervase of Tilbury being the maker of the Ebstorf map are based on the name Gervase, which was an uncommon name in Northern Germany at the time and on some similarities between the world view of the mapmaker and Gervase of Tilbury.

* Gervase of Tilbury, ( fl. late 12th century ), English lawyer and writer

John of Naples showed parts of this book to Gervase of Tilbury around the year 1200.

Gervase of Tilbury knew of two churches that used Virgil's spell to control flies.

The stories feature Oxford don Gervase Fen, who is a Professor of English at the university and a fellow of St Christopher's College, a fictional institution that Crispin locates next to St John's College.

As the alliance continued to target the opposing tribe, Pagong, Jenna Lewis and Gervase Peterson were eliminated next.

Marston's next series was set during the reign of William the Conqueror ; its two main characters, surveyors for Domesday Book, are Ralph Delchard, a Norman soldier, and Gervase Bret, a former novice turned lawyer, who is half Norman and half Saxon.

Gervase employed the next years, from 1210 to 1214, writing the Otia Imperialia (" Recreation for an Emperor ") for his patron.

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

He was taken to the priory of St Gervase at Rouen, where he died on 9 September 1087.

* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.

Gervase of Canterbury felt that he was too impetuous, probably because of Theobald's treatment of his priors at Christ Church.

Walton was born at Stafford ; the register of his baptism gives his father's name as Gervase.

Concert and oratorio singer Gervase Elwes had a family home at Brigg Manor.

A transit of Mars across Jupiter on 12 Sep 1170 was observed by the monk Gervase at Canterbury, and by Chinese astronomers.

One of the earliest in London ( possibly the first ) was in January 1913 at the Queen's Hall, under Henry Wood, where it was sung by Gervase Elwes and Doris Woodall: Wood thought it ' excessively modern but very beautiful '.

Gervase Markham was buried at St Giles's, Cripplegate, London, on 3 February 1637.

His first major composition, the Clarinet Concerto, was performed at the Cheltenham Festival of 1954 by Gervase de Peyer with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir John Barbirolli.

Courageously, Don Gemmel, Gervase Farjeon and Reginald Woolley arranged a short Christmas season at Swiss Cottage's Embassy Theatre.

It has been suggested that, after the resounding defeat of Otto and his English ally John at the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), Gervase was forced to retire to the duchy of Braunschweig, where he became, and died, provost of Ebstorf, and it is apparent that his work was known to the authors of the Ebstorf world map ( ca.

Speaking of the very monastery built by the saint at Hy, the historian Gervase of Canterbury, in his " Mappa Mundi ", informs us that the monastery belonged to the Black Canons.

George Gervase was born at Bosham, Sussex, in 1569, and seems to have been received into the Catholic Church when he was aged about thirty.

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.

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.

To replace the departing principals the LSO recruited rising young players including Hugh Maguire, Neville Marriner and Simon Streatfeild in the string sections, Gervase de Peyer and William Waterhouse in the woodwinds, and Barry Tuckwell and Dennis Wick in the brass.

" She had Sir William Wade, the honest Lord Lieutenant of the Tower, removed to make way for a new Lieutenant, Sir Gervase Helwys ; and a gaoler, of whom it was ominously said that he was " a man well acquainted with the power of drugs ," was set to attend on Overbury.

* Gervase Markham & William Sampson-Herod and Antipater

Trials in this hall have included those of Anne Askew ( Protestant martyr ), Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Lady Jane Grey, Guildford Dudley, Thomas Cranmer, Henry Peckham, John Daniel, John Felton ( Catholic ), Roderigo Lopez, Henry Garnet ( in connection with the Gunpowder Plot ), Sir Gervase Helwys ( in connection with the Overbury plot ) and it contains memorials to Pitt the Elder, Pitt the Younger, Admiral Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington, William Beckford, and Winston Churchill.

By the 13th century the land was owned by the Gervase family who gave some land to William of Wykeham in the 14th century ... Bishop of Winchester and founder of Winchester College ; he later gave land in Ropley to the College.

* William Sampson ( playwright ), collaborated with Gervase Markham

In the decline of the Jacobean period, this company produced plays including Dekker and Massinger's The Virgin Martyr, Thomas May's The Heir, and Gervase Markham and William Sampson's Herod and Antipater.

* The Domesday series, featuring Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret, commissioners appointed by William the Conqueror, to look into the serious irregularities that come to light during the compilation of the Domesday Book, the great survey of England:

In addition, a number of individuals are known to have read the text or have been indirectly influenced by it, including: Vussin, Hrabanus Maurus, Hermann of Reichenau, Hugo of St. Victor, Gervase of Melkey, William of Malmesbury, Theoderich of St. Trond, Petrus Diaconus, Albertus Magnus, Filippo Villani, Jean de Montreuil, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Giovanni de Dondi, Domenico di Bandino, Niccolò Acciaioli bequeathed copy to the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Bernward of Hildesheim, and St. Thomas Aquinas.

Thomas Duffus Hardy identified him with Gervase of Chichester, but William Stubbs argued against this theory, as also against confusing him with Gervase of Melkeley.

The Octet was recorded in 1967 with Gervase de Peyer ( clarinet ), William Waterhouse ( bassoon ), Neill Sanders ( horn ), Emanuel Hurwitz and Ivor McMahon ( violin ), Cecil Aronowitz ( viola ), Terence Weil ( cello ) and Adrian Beers ( double bass ).