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Ranulf Higden in his Polychronicus records the Flemings as extinct in Pembrokeshire by 1327 but Flemish mercenaries reappear in 1400 when at the behest of Henry IV they joined an army of 1500 English settlers who marched north from Pembrokeshire to attack the army of Owain Glyndŵr at Mynydd Hyddgen.
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Ranulf and Higden
" Ranulf Higden ( 14th century ) viewed the same detail in a negative light.
* 1364 – Ranulf Higden, chronicler
1260 ), Ranulf Higden ( before 1352, and the first to misname him " Oliver ") and the English translators of his work, Henry Knighton ( before 1367 ), John Nauclerus of Tübingen ( c. 1500 ), John Wilkins ( 1648 ), John Milton ( 1670 ), and John Wise ( 1850 ).
The somewhat later mappae mundi that accompany the popular Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden should probably be viewed as degenerate form of the earlier complex maps.
Ranulf Higden ( or Higdon ) ( c. 1280 – March 12, 1364 ) was an English chronicler and a Benedictine monk of the monastery of St. Werburgh in Chester.
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* Ranulf Higdon ( or Higden ), English chronicler and a Benedictine monk
He translated for his patron the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, adding remarks of his own, and prefacing it with a Dialogue on Translation between a Lord and a Clerk.
The Dialogue on Translation between a Lord and a Clerk forms the preface of John Trevisa's 1387 translation of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, made for his patron, Lord Berkeley.
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Ranulf and records
Orderic Vitalis, a medieval chronicler, records that Robert fitzThurstin gave the nickname to Ranulf, because Robert resented the fact that Ranulf, though of low birth, ordered the nobility around.
Ranulf and extinct
However, Ranulf Higdon in his Polychronicon ( 1327 ) states that Flemish was by his time extinct in southwest Wales, and George Owen in 1603 was adamant that Flemish was long extinct.
Ranulf and by
Ranulf devised a plan for dealing with the problem by ambushing Henry whilst the prince was travelling back from Stephen's court to Scotland after Christmas.
Stephen responded to rumours of this plan by escorting Henry himself north, but this gesture proved the final straw for Ranulf.
Ranulf had previously claimed that he had the rights to Lincoln Castle, held by Stephen, and under the guise of a social visit, Ranulf seized the fortification in a surprise attack.
The Angevin plan involved Ranulf agreeing to give up his claim to Carlisle, held by the Scots, in return for being given the rights to the whole of the Honour of Lancaster ; Ranulf would give homage to both David and Henry Fitzempress, with Henry having seniority.
Henry FitzEmpress returned to England again at the start of 1153 with a small army, supported in the north and east of England by Ranulf of Chester and Hugh Bigod.
" He was unhorsed and captured by Henry's troops led by Ranulf de Glanvill and taken in chains to Newcastle, then Northampton, and then transferred to Falaise in Normandy.
King Henry continued to support the young duke, but in late 1046 opponents of William came together in a rebellion centred in lower Normandy, led by Guy of Burgundy with support from Nigel, Viscount of the Cotentin, and Ranulf, Viscount of the Bessin.
* William I of Scotland is captured by Ranulf de Glanvill at the Battle of Alnwick, and Henry II of England occupies part of Scotland.
Ranulf joined Robert and Sergius there, encouraged by news coming from Sicily that Roger was fatally ill or even already dead.
Ranulf himself, who had taken refuge in Troia, his capital, was killed by a malaric fever on 30 April 1139.
Tolentone was owned by Ranulf brother of Ilger and included all the areas north and east of Canonbury and Holloway Road.
Ranulf devised a plan for dealing with the problem by ambushing Henry whilst the prince was travelling back from Stephen's court to Scotland after Christmas.
Stephen responded to rumours of this plan by escorting Henry himself north, but this gesture proved the final straw for Ranulf.
Ranulf had previously claimed that he had the rights to Lincoln Castle, held by Stephen, and under the guise of a social visit, Ranulf seized the fortification in a surprise attack.
The Angevin plan involved Ranulf agreeing to give up his claim to Carlisle, held by the Scots, in return for being given the rights to the whole of the Honour of Lancaster ; Ranulf would give homage to both David and Henry Fitzempress, with Henry having seniority.
Henry FitzEmpress returned to England again at the start of 1153 with a small army, supported in the north and east of England by Ranulf of Chester and Hugh Bigod.
Similar to another castle built by Ranulf during the same period at Beeston in Cheshire, Bolingroke had no inner defensive keep.
The present structure was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade.
At the side of the broad shady road called Rotten Row, leading from the West Lodge to Bailiffgate, a tablet of stone marks the spot where William the Lion of Scotland was captured in 1174, during the second Battle of Alnwick by a party of about four hundred mounted knights, led by Ranulf de Glanvill ; and there are many others of similar interest.
Ranulf and Flemish
It could also be a Flemish name associated with the Norman Conquerors, i. e. Ranulf de Fishbourne.
Ranulf and mercenaries
He had stockpiled money to pay for mercenaries and ensured the support of the powerful marcher lords with their own feudal forces, such as William Marshal and Ranulf of Chester.
Ranulf then spent the money on mercenaries.
From 1016 to 1030 the Normans were pure mercenaries, serving either Byzantines or Lombards, and then Sergius IV of Naples, by installing the leader Ranulf Drengot in the fortress of Aversa in 1030, gave them their first pied-à-terre and they began an organized conquest of the land.
Ranulf and when
Ranulf was probably born about 1060, as he was close to 70 when he died in 1128.
When Ranulf became bishop, he married her to a burgess of Huntingdon, but remained on good terms with both Alveva and her spouse, often staying with them when he traveled away from Durham.
The road acquired the name Ryknild Street during the 12th century when it was named by Ranulf Higdon, a monk of Chester writing in 1344 in his Polychronicon.
Ranulf enlisted the help of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester to retake the castle and succeeded when King Stephen surrendered to him at Lincoln.
Ranulf took advantage of disarray amongst the king ’ s followers and in the weeks after the fighting managed to take the Earl of Richmond ’ s northern castles and capture him when he tried to ambush Ranulf.
Many of the magnates were alarmed when it was discovered that Ranulf wanted the king to take part in a campaign against the Welsh.
Ranulf succumbed to the poison on 16 December 1153: his son Hugh inherited his lands as held in 1135 ( when Stephen took the throne ), while other honours bestowed upon Ranulf were revoked.
Immediately after the Conquest Walcott was given to Robert Malet who died before the Domesday Survey of 1088 when it was granted to Ralph ( Ranulf ), brother of Iger and held by Humphrey, possibly his nephew.
In 1215, the Court of King John of England is at the castle of Sir Ranulf Fitzwilliam to extort more taxes, and when the lord refuses to pay the King insults him.
Lochlann ignored Henry's summons until an embassy consisting of Hugh de Puiset, Bishop of Durham and Justiciar Ranulf de Glanville provided him with hostages as a guarantee of his safety ; when he agreed to travel to Carlisle with the king's ambassadors.
Abberton is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086-7 as Edburghetuna and as Edburgetuna in the Hundred of Winstree, when it was part of the lands of Count Eustace in Essex, held by Ralph de Marcy and further held by Ranulf Peverel in demesne ; it was held by Siward, a free man, as a manor in the time of King Edward before the Norman Conquest of 1066.
This flared into open conflict in the winter of 1223-4 when Ranulf among others briefly tried to resist de Burgh ’ s policy of resumption of sheriffdoms and royal castles.
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