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 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.

The chronicler William of Tyre did not like him, calling him " a brawler and a slanderer, ever active in stirring up trouble ", and Miles insulted the other barons of the kingdom, especially those who were native easterners, by refusing to consult them on any matter.

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.

The monk and chronicler Widukind of Corvey in his Res gestae Saxonicae reports that the Danes were subjects of Henry the Fowler.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis reports that the old king had declared to Henry: " You in your own time will have all the dominions I have acquired and be greater than both your brothers in wealth and power.

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.

The 6th century chronicler Jordanes reports a tradition that they had been driven out of their homeland by the North Germanic Dani, which places their origins in the Danish isles or southernmost Sweden.

However the near-contemporary chronicler Jean Froissart reports a " gossipy " tale that Gaunt's sister kidnapped Mary from Pleshey Castle, Essex, where her family was holding her cloistered as a novice nun in order to keep her fortune for themselves, and took her to her own castle at Arundel.

The medieval chronicler Jans der Enikel reports that the duke appeared in a red-white-red ceremonial dress at his 1232 accolade in the Vienna Schottenstift.

" While he was besieging the city of Acre, Godfrey, the ruler of Jerusalem, was struck by an arrow, which killed him ", reports the Arab chronicler Ibn al-Qalanisi.

Byzantine chronicler John Malalas reports that the original dome was 20 byzantine feet lower than its replacement.

In the Viking period, the chronicler Æthelweard reports that the most important town in Angeln was Hedeby.

The Ottoman chronicler İbrahim Peçevi reports in his writings ( 1642-49 ) about the opening of the first coffeehouse in Istanbul:

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.

The chronicler Richer of Rheims reports an accusation of 977 against him of adultery, with Queen Emma of Italy.

However, another chronicler, Gomes Eanes de Zurara reports that the royal family fled to Odivelas ( and therefore not to Sacavém ), and that the queen died there.

The contemporary chronicler Matthew of Edessa reports a pursuit of two days while Ralph of Caen reports three days.

The chronicler Ralph Niger reports that on this mission Eraclius offered the kingship of Jerusalem to Philip II of France and Henry II of England ( but both turned him down ) and to any other prince he came across.

The medieval chronicler Jans der Enikel reports that the duke appeared in a red-white-red ceremonial dress at his 1232 accolade in the Vienna Schottenstift.

In 884, the emir sent two military campaigns into the region and took Zaragoza, although chronicler ibn Hayyan reports that Muhammad ibn Lubb had sold the city to count Raymond I of Pallars and Ribagorza prior to its fall.

The chronicler William of Malmesbury reports that Aubrey represented King Stephen in 1139, when the king had been summoned to a church council to answer for the seizure of castles held by Roger, Bishop of Salisbury.

As the Armenian chronicler Mkhitar Gosh reports in his Ishatarakan (" Memorabilia "), Tamar " married a man from the Alan kingdom, her relative on the mother ’ s side, whose name was Soslan, named David upon his ascension to the throne ".

One of the earliest reports come from the Andalucian chronicler Ibn Idhari Al-Marrakushi in his Al-Bayan al-Mughrib fi akhbar al-Andalus.