During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury records a story that when the new sheriff of Worcester, Urse d ' Abetot, encroached on the cemetery of the cathedral chapter for Worcester Cathedral, Ealdred pronounced a rhyming curse on him, saying " Thou are called Urse.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

The chronicler William of Tyre reports on the renovation of the Church in the mid-12th century.

" The chronicler William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.

Contemporary chronicler William of Tyre recorded the census of 1183, which was intended to determine the number of men available to defend against an invasion, and to determine the amount of tax money that could be obtained from the inhabitants, Muslim or Christian.

Jerusalem was especially involved in the silk, cotton and spice trade ; other items that first appeared in Europe through trade with crusader Jerusalem included oranges and sugar, the latter of which chronicler William of Tyre called " very necessary for the use and health of mankind.

This interpretation derives from the Chronicle attributed to the 14th-century chronicler of Scotland, John of Fordun, as well as from earlier sources such as William of Malmesbury.

Crusade chronicler William of Tyre, writing in the late 12th century, described sugar as " very necessary for the use and health of mankind ".

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis states that Edwin's reason for revolting was that the proposed marriage between himself and one of William's daughters had not taken place, but other reasons probably included the increasing power of William fitzOsbern in Herefordshire, which impacted Edwin's power within his own earldom.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

** William of Nangis, French chronicler

The account of the contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers, states that the body of Harold was given to William Malet for burial:

According to the Norman chronicler, William of Jumièges, Robert I, Duke of Normandy attempted an invasion of England to place Edward on the throne in about 1034, but it was blown off course to Jersey.

Dudo fails to identify her mother, but later chronicler William of Jumieges makes this explicit.

William of Tyre ( c. 1130 – 29 September 1186 ) was a medieval prelate and chronicler.

The Brut y Tywysogion chronicler commented: " that year William de Breos the Younger, lord of Brycheiniog, was hanged by the lord Llywelyn in Gwynedd, after he had been caught in Llywelyn's chamber with the king of England's daughter, Llywelyn's wife ".

The Norman chronicler William of Poitiers recorded that Edward sent Harold to tell William that Edward had decided William should succeed him as king of England upon his ( Edward's ) death.

According to the twelfth century chronicler William of Malmesbury, the abbey was built on a gravel spur " between the rivers Kennet and Thames, on a spot calculated for the reception of almost all who might have occasion to travel to the more populous cities of England ".

The contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers wrote concerning him:

According to chronicler Orderic Vitalis, the crew asked William Adelin for drink and he supplied it to them in great abundance.

The chronicler further claimed that when Thomas FitzStephen came to the surface after the sinking and learned that William Adelin had not survived, he let himself drown rather than face the King.

According to William of Tyre, the later 12th-century chronicler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Godfrey was " tall of stature, not extremely so, but still taller than the average man.

* William of Tyre ( c. 1130 – 1185 ), Archbishop of Tyre, chronicler of the Crusades

Isabella was already known to be carrying their first child – Maria of Montferrat, who later succeeded her mother as queen regnant ( see the Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, the Brevis Regni Hierosolymitani Historia in the Annals of Genoa, and the Muslim chronicler Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani ).

Some, such as the Crusader chronicler William of Tyre, claimed that al -‘ Azīzah was also the mother of Caliph al-Ḥākim, though most historians dismiss this.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

According to medieval chronicler William of Tyre, " It was a pleasant spot where conditions of life for people of the lower ranks were better than in cities.

Walter was used as a source by the later 12th century chronicler William of Tyre.

She was buried at the Cathedral of Tyre, according to Ernoul, the chronicler who continued the chronicles of William of Tyre.

In addition to Ibn al-Qalanisi's favourable depiction of him, the Christian chronicler William of Tyre also speaks very highly of Mu ' in ad-Din: he showed " sincere fidelity " in his negotiations with the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and was " a man of much wisdom and a lover of our people.

It also has been used to argue that perhaps, Ceawlin did not win the battle and that the chronicler chose not to record the outcome fully – a king does not usually come home " in anger " after taking " many towns and countless war-loot ".

A 15th-century Canterbury chronicler, Thomas of Elmham, claimed that there were a number of books brought to England by that second group still at Canterbury in his day, although he did not identify them.

The chronicler Jan Długosz, known for his antipathy towards the king and his father, alleged that there was something unusual about Wladyslaw's sexuality, though Dlugosz did not specify what: "(…) too subject to his carnal desires (…) he did not abandon his lewd and despicable habits " ( Polish: " zbyt chuciom cielesnym podległy (…) nie porzucał wcale swych sprośnych i obrzydłych nałogów (…)" ).

The Evesham chronicler said, " this queen, although she did not bear children, was still held to have contributed to the glory and wealth of the realm, as far as she was able ".

Theodosius did not readily accept this choice and according to the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor even attempted to hide in the forests near Adramyttium.

The Italian-born chronicler Peter Martyr told of them in a letter to the pope in 1513, though he didn't believe the stories and was dismayed that so many others did.

William took Stigand with him to Normandy in 1067, although whether this was because William did not trust the archbishop, as the medieval chronicler William of Poitiers alleges, is not certain.

Of Guildford, the chronicler Grafton wrote ten years later: " even those that never before the time of his execution saw him, did with lamentable tears bewail his death ".

It was recorded by the chronicler Thomas Walsingham that many magnates did not attend the re-burial ceremony because they ' had not yet digested their hatred ' of him.

The Damascene chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi generally speaks of Nur ad-Din in majestic terms, although he himself died in 1160, and unfortunately did not witness the later events of Nur ad-Din's reign.

According to the Polish chronicler Jan Długosz, Stephen did not celebrate his victory ; instead, he fasted for forty days on bread and water and forbade anyone to attribute the victory to him, insisting that credit be given only to " The Lord ".

In 1193, according to the chronicler Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Theodore became the lover of the dowager empress Anna, then aged 22 ; they did not marry because in marrying a commoner she would have lost her dowry.

The chronicler John of Worcester relates under the year 1099 that St. Michael's Mount was located five or six miles ( 10 km ) from the sea, enclosed in a thick wood, but that on the third day of the nones of November the sea overflowed the land, destroying many towns and drowning many people as well as innumerable oxen and sheep ; the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records under the date 11 November 1099, " The sea-flood sprung up to such a height, and did so much harm, as no man remembered that it ever did before ".

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.

Thietmar, the principal German chronicler of the time, did not give precise details as to the conditions on which Boleslaw retained these lands.

The chronicler of 754 claims that some of the nobles who had accompanied Roderic on his last expedition did so out of " ambition for the kingdom ", perhaps intending to allow him to die in battle so that they could secure the throne for one of themselves.

The chronicler William of Malmesbury, however, suggests that Matilda did not climb down the walls, but instead escaped from one of the gates.

Even Walter Map, a contemporary English satirical chronicler, had been kind toward Louis VII and praised him marking a contrast with the harsh critiques he did toward other kings.

He did, however, serve as a patron to Roger of Hoveden, the medieval chronicler who started writing about 1169.

Modern historians assume, however, that Bezprym in fact did exist, and that the chronicler erroneously combined Otto and Bezprym into one person.

The fact that the chronicler or chroniclers did not realise that they had seen a planet rather than a new star demonstrates the weak astronomical knowledge of the scholars of the time, whose astronomical accounts are actually very difficult to interpret and attribute to a rare event.

At first he was no chronicler but he did eventually write descriptions of the south-east Asia he saw in 1583 – 1591, and upon his return to England, in 1591, became a valuable consultant for the British East India Company