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The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.
Generally a chronicle (, from Greek, from, chronos, " time ") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.
The seeds of heraldic structure in personal identification can be detected in the account in a contemporary chronicle of Henry I of England, on the occasion of his knighting his son-in-law Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, in 1127.
All versions of the speech except that by Fulcher of Chartres were probably influenced by the chronicle account of the First Crusade called the Gesta Francorum ( dated c. 1102 ), which includes a version of it.
A trustworthy chronicle hands down another account which does not conflict with the fact that an embassy was sent, but evidently furnishes the true reasons which moved Attila to receive it favourably.
Another account of his deathbed scene is more credible ; according to one chronicle, Edward gathered around him the earls of Lincoln and Warwick, Aymer de Valence, and Robert Clifford, and charged them with looking after his son Edward.
The account of the quarrel with Dunstan and Cynesige, bishop of Lichfield at the coronation feast is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and in the later chronicle of John of Worcester and was written by monks supportive of Dunstan's position.
* A contemporary account This reference should be to the 1838 translation of a contemporary chronicle on http :// www. hillsdalesites. org / personal / hstewart / war / Ren / 1471-Tewkesbury. htm.
However, Fordun's chronicle was not written until the later 14th century, and the near-contemporary account of the life of St Margaret, by Bishop Turgot, makes no mention of a castle.
According to the account in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, " There is no reason to doubt that she was buried with her husband at Coventry, despite the assertion of the Evesham chronicle that she lay in Holy Trinity, Evesham.
The account of the burial by the chronicle of Margam Abbey says three bodies were found, the other being of Mordred.
The chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg, who died in 1018, could have been regarded as the only contemporary and unbiased account of events, if it were not for the fact that Thietmar's data could have been supplied by Svyatopolk himself during his brief exile at the Polish court.
( An alternative account is given in a Maya chronicle from the Colonial era, claiming that Mayapan was contemporary with Chichen and Uxmal and in alliance with those cities, but archeological evidence shows this version to be less likely.
While no chronicle account of the battle mentions Lovell, it seems certain that he fought for Richard at the Battle of Bosworth Field ( 22 August 1485 ).
Similarly, the chronicler Giovanni Villani was so impressed on this occasion by the sight of the monuments of Rome and the people who flocked thither that he then and there formed the resolution of his great chronicle, in the course of which he gives a remarkable account of what he witnessed.
According to a chronicle account, the use of a blunt sword was ordered, and the executioner needed 22 strokes to sever the earl's head from his body.
This is however a very biased account, as Betanzos's wife, on whose testimony much of his chronicle is based was previously married to Atahualpa.
Walter Guisborough's chronicle, which contains a detailed account of this invasion, makes it clear that it was led by Wallace.
But in view of the fact that our city of Florence, daughter and offspring of Rome, was mounting and pursuing great purposes, while Rome was in its decline, I thought it proper to trace in this chronicle the origins of the city of Florence, so far as I have been able to recover them, and to relate the city's further development at greater length, and at the same time to give a brief account of events throughout the world as long as it please God, in the hope of whose favor I undertook the said enterprise rather than in reliance on my own poor wits.
Other types would be chronicles of particular historic episodes such as Dino Compagni's account of the White Guelphs and Black Guelphs or the more domestic chronicle that focused on the fortunes and events of one family, as written by Donato Velluti or Giovanni Morelli.
His other works include Dinny and the Witches ( 1948, revised 1961 ), in which a jazz musician incurs the wrath of three Shakespearean witches by blowing a riff which stops time ; the book for the musical version of Clifford Odets ' Golden Boy ( 1964 ), which earned him yet another Tony nomination ; A Mass for the Dead ( 1968 ), an autobiographical family chronicle ; A Cry of Players ( 1968 ), a speculative account of the life of young William Shakespeare ( with Anne Bancroft starring for Gibson once again, this time as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway ); Goodly Creatures ( 1980 ), about Puritan dissident Anne Hutchinson ; and Monday After the Miracle ( 1982 ), a continuation of the Helen Keller story.
Much later, Geoffrey of Monmouth included the figure in his pseudohistorical chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, adding fictional details to Gildas ' account and making Constantine the successor to King Arthur as King of Britain.
In the 12th century Geoffrey of Monmouth adapted Gildas ' account for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae, and thereafter Aurelius Conanus was remembered as a legendary King of Britain.
Certainly Albany's closest ally and fellow exile James Liddale of Halkerston is found imprisoned awaiting execution at this time, suggesting he had returned to Scotland with Albany, and a chronicle account that claims Albany killed the ' laird of Manerston ' ( a minor but trusted royal official ) may be confirmed by Manerston's death before 14 October 1485.

chronicle and battle
The chronicle goes on to report a victory in 491, at present day Pevensey, where the battle ended with the Saxons slaughtering their opponents to the last man.
* Interactive Animation of the Battle of Gettysburg-A chronicle of the 3-day battle, it also touches on Lee's tactical strategies during the American Civil War.
Yamato 2520 was to chronicle the adventures of the eighteenth starship to bear the name, and its battle against the Seiren Federation.
The chronicle goes on to describe Ælle's battle with the British in 485 near the bank of Mercredesburne, and his siege of Pevensey in 491 after which the inhabitants were massacred.
In one of the later versions of his chronicle, Froissart does mention guns being used in the battle, but by that time firearms had become more common in warfare.
The location of the battle appears in various forms in the sources: Brunanburh ( in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle or the chronicle of John of Worcester, or in accounts derived from them ), Brunandune ( Aethelweard ), Brunnanwerc or Bruneford or Weondune ( Symeon of Durham and accounts derived from him ), Brunefeld or Bruneford ( William of Malmesbury and accounts derived from him ), Duinbrunde ( Scottish traditions ), Brun ( Welsh traditions ), plaines of othlynn ( Annals of Clonmacnoise ), and Vinheithr ( Egil's Saga ), among others.
The chronicle of Johannes von Winterthur concerning the battle puts the Austrian forces at 20, 000, though that number is certainly inflated.
( A version of Howard's declaration to James IV that he would lead the vanguard and take no prisoners was included in later English chronicle accounts of the battle.
A number of related manuscripts and versions of the Brut chronicle give the names of the leading knights of the Scottish battle order.
The chronicle of Johannes von Winterthur over the battle puts the Austrian forces at 20, 000 though that number is certainly inflated.
The Lucerne chronicle of 1513, in battle scenes of the Burgundy wars of the 1470s shows cantonal flags with an added white cross.
Jan van Heelu wrote a chronicle of the battle.
Some chronicle accounts of the battle include an invented pre-battle speech on the glorious deeds of the Normans, occasionally quoted as good contemporary evidence of the high opinion the Normans held of themselves.
The chronicle tells about a battle that took place around 1280, in which ancient Latvian tribes from Cēsis, a city in the northern part of Latvia, went to war, bearing a red flag with a white stripe.
The chronicle described the battle as follows:
For many years, it was also believed that he was commander of all Polish troops in the battle, but recent research proved that this was but a wrong translation of Longinus ' chronicle.
The badge depicts a golden kite, a messenger of the kami as described in the ancient Japanese chronicle Nihon Shoki, which helped Emperor Jimmu defeat his enemies in battle.
According to Aleksander Wiśniowiecki, Kosiński was killed in a battle against his forces, while the chronicle of Marcin Bielski mentions that Kosiński was found drunk in a guest house and killed in a duel.
Of particular interest is a detailed set of seven additional Episodes that chronicle the life of Iva Demilcol, a young Imperial boy whose father died in a battle with Orta's dragon shortly after a bitter argument with Iva over the morality of war.
The chronicle goes on to describe a great battle between P ' arnajom and his nobles in which the king is defeated and killed, and the crown given to his son-in-law, Arshak / Artaxias, son of the king of Armenia, the rebels ' ally.
According to a Harari chronicle, Gelawdewos was killed in battle.
According to the chronicle, individual Estonians who had pretended to be dead in their desperation tried to kill Germans even after the end of the battle.
Another historical view on this battle is given by a Serbian chronicle dated a century later, indicating that there were two battles.

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