* Polydore Vergil or Virgil, chronicler in England

Among eminent men who have been associated with the cathedral – besides those who have already been mentioned – are Robert of Gloucester, the chronicler, prebendary in 1291 ; Nicholas of Hereford, chancellor in 1377, a remarkable man and leader of the Lollards at Oxford ; John Carpenter, town clerk of London who baptized there on December 18, 1378 ; Polydore Vergil, prebendary in 1507, a celebrated literary man, as indeed with such a name he ought to have been ; and Miles Smith, prebendary in 1580, promoted to the See of Gloucester – one of the translators of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible.

The contemporary chronicler Giovanni Villani reports gossip that he had bound himself to King Philip IV of France by a formal agreement before his elevation, made at St. Jean d ' Angély in Saintonge.

Edward Halle, a contemporary chronicler, records that Cromwell made a speech on the scaffold, professing to die, " in the traditional faith " and then " so paciently suffered the stroke of the axe, by a ragged Boocherly miser whiche very ungoodly perfourmed the Office ".

Neither a chronicler nor a historian in the usual sense of the word, his analyses of the contemporary political scene are what made him virtually unique in his own time.

The Florentine chronicler Giovanni Cavalcanti reported that, in the very year of Valla's treatise, Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, made diplomatic overtures toward Cosimo de ' Medici in Florence, proposing an alliance against the Pope.

Horace Walpole asserts that when Pulteney wished to withdraw from the peerage it was forced upon him by the king, and another chronicler of the times records that when Walpole and Pulteney met in the House of Lords, the one as Earl of Orford, the other as Earl of Bath, the remark was made by Orford: " Here we are, my lord, the two most insignificant fellows in England.

The foundation myth of Cornwall originates with the early Brythonic chronicler Nennius in the Historia Brittonum and made its way, via Geoffrey of Monmouth into Early Modern English cannon where it was absorbed by the Elizabethans as the tale of King Leir alongside that of Cymbeline and King Arthur, other mythical British kings.

According to the Peruvian chronicler Antonio de la Calancha, it was St. Nicholas of Tolentino who made possible a permanent Spanish settlement in the rigorous, high-altitude climate of Potosi, Bolivia.

A suggestion made by a contemporary chronicler, and supported by modern-day historians, said that the true purpose of the battle was to settle personal scores.

The chronicler Joinville, who was not a priest, reports incidents demonstrating Margaret's bravery after Louis was made prisoner in Egypt: she decisively acted to assure a food supply for the Christians in Damietta, and went so far as to ask the knight who guarded her bedchamber to kill her and her newborn son if the city should fall to the Arabs.

A Benedictine monk and chronicler, he made updates to the World Chronicle ( Chronicon universale ) of Frutolf of Michelsberg adding important German history between 1098 and 1125 during the reign of Emperor Henry V, in which he sided strongly with the papacy in the Investiture Controversy.

Because assessments were made by dioceses, Baldwin of Exeter, the Archbishop of Canterbury was especially blamed ; wisely, perhaps, he spent most of the year in Wales, preaching the crusade, accompanied by the chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis.

According to the Armenian chronicler Vardan Areveltsi, he ruled for a month and was murdered by his nobles, Sumbat and Ivane Orbeli, who had made a secret agreement with George, David ’ s younger brother.

The first known written citation of the Dame of Amboto was made by Charles V's chronicler Esteban de Garibay Zamalloa in his Memorial histórico español.

Then followed his debut play The Hypochondriac ( 1852 ), somewhat similar to Gogol's Marriage, and his first stories from Sketches of Peasant life, a three part cycle which made his reputation as a chronicler of the life of the common people.

According to the contemporary chronicler Pierre de l ' Estoile, they made themselves " exceedingly odious, as much by their foolish and haughty demeanour, as by their effeminate and immodest dress, but above all by the immense gifts the king made to them.

Charles the Bold maintained the traditions of his house as a patron of literature, and showed special favor to Chastellain, who, after being constituted indiciaire or chronicler of the Order of the Golden Fleece, was himself made a knight of the order on 2 May 1473.

The chronicler of San Juan de la Peña, a Navarrese source, wrote that Sancho of Castile was forced to raise the siege of Viana and flee on a horse bedecked only in its halter ; that he subsequently convinced Abd ar-Rahman of Huesca to go to war with Aragon ; and that Sancho Ramírez eventually made peace with him anyway.

According to the chronicler Edward Hall ( c. 1498 – 1547 ), a fortnight before the riot an inflammatory xenophobic speech was made on Easter Tuesday by a Dr. Bell at St. Paul's Cross at the instigation of John Lincoln, a broker.

According to the Harlem chronicler James Weldon Johnson, the 1921 musical revue Shuffle Along marked a breakthrough for the African-American musical performer and made musical theatre history.

The use of the term Bretwalda was the attempt by a West Saxon chronicler to make some claim of West Saxon kings to the whole of Great Britain.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

The only source of this affair is the chronicler Liutprand of Cremona, writing some 50 years after the events of Sergius ’ pontificate.

Holmes shares the majority of his professional years with his good friend and chronicler Dr. Watson, who lives with Holmes for some time before his marriage in 1887, and again after his wife's death.

The details of his death, given by the chronicler Ottokar of Styria, are seen by some historians as very reliable and by others as doubtful.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

* The Siege of Limoges in 1370 on the Aquitaine area, after which the Black Prince was obliged to leave his post for his sickness and financial issues, but also because of the cruelty of the siege, which saw the massacre of some 3, 000 residents according to the chronicler Froissart.

It represented, to some degree, a rejection of her own earlier romantic work as she took on the public role as chronicler of the Terror.

Godfrey, along with his two brothers, started in August 1096 at the head of an army from Lorraine ( some say 40, 000 strong ) along " Charlemagne's road ", as Urban II seems to have called it ( according to the chronicler Robert the Monk )— the road to Jerusalem.

According to some late sources, such as the chronicler John of Wallingford, Amlaíb was the son of Sitriuc and this West Saxon princess.

One early chronicler, Simon de St. Bertin, implies that the Knights Templar originated earlier, before the death of Godfrey of Bouillon in 1100: " While he was reigning magnificently, some had decided not to return to the shadows of the world after suffering such dangers for God's sake.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

It provided the chronicler Edward Hall with much of his sense of 15th-century English history, and so had some effect on the history plays of William Shakespeare.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

The medieval chronicler Orderic Vitalis believed that the Normans had imposed a yoke on the English: " And so the English groaned aloud for their lost liberty and plotted ceaselessly to find some way of shaking off a yoke that was so intolerable and unaccustomed ".

Although Marien worked as an artist across many media, some of the most notable achievements throughout his career were as a chronicler of the Belgian Surrealists ' activities and a publisher of their writings.

The Anglo-Norman chronicler Florence of Worcester commented that although the king was aware that some of the bravest men in England had fallen in two recent battles and that half of his troops were not assembled he did not hesitate to meet the enemy in Sussex.

The 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris repeats some of the legend that had accrued around her name.

Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, an early chronicler of the Calusa, described " sorcerers in the shape of the devil, with some horns on their heads ," who ran through the town yelling like animals for four months at a time.

According to the chronicler Charles Wriothesley, Richmond became sickly some time before he died, although Richmond's biographer Beverley A. Murphy cites his documented public appearances and activities in April and May of that year, without exciting comment on his health, as evidence to the contrary.

Schulz mentions that in Rangabhumi, Premchand comes across as a " superb social chronicler ", and although the novel contains some " structural flaws " and " too many authorial explanations ", it shows a " marked progress " in Premchand's writing style.