Gregory II was an alleged collateral ancestor to the Roman Savelli family, according to a 15th-century chronicler, but this is unattested in contemporary documents and very likely unreliable.

Notoriously unreliable and digressive in structure, it is nonetheless the principal contemporary source for information about the author's life.

The contemporary Covenanter was unreliable and was retained in the UK for training use.

There is also a conflicting tradition, generally considered unreliable, which makes Dandin a contemporary of Kalidasa.

Because it purports to supply us with so much contemporary information previously unknown or unreliable, modern historians have claimed that " the discovery of this treatise constitutes almost a new epoch in Greek historical study.

However, no contemporary account of this rescue exist, and the only source is the very unreliable Parson Weems.

:“ Rather than glorifying — consciously or not — the rugged existence of the peasants, he placed them without any ‘ pose ’ in their habitual surroundings, thus becoming an objective chronicler of one of the many facets of contemporary life .”

Often enough, the first records potentially describing use of gunpowder in warfare were written several centuries after the fact, and may well have been colored by the contemporary experiences of the chronicler.

Giovanni Villani, a contemporary of Boccaccio and chronicler, states that he was born in Paris as a consequence of an illicit relation but others denounce this as a romanticism by the earliest biographers.

Another contemporary chronicler, Procopius, compares Justinian's appearance to that of tyrannical Emperor Domitian, although this is probably slander.

Robert the Monk is the only contemporary chronicler of the crusade to report that Godfrey took the title " king ".

According to the contemporary chronicler John Strecche, who lived at the neighbouring Kenilworth Priory, the French openly mocked Henry in 1414 by sending him a gift of tennis balls at Kenilworth.

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

A contemporary chronicler suspected poisoning as the reason behind the sudden death.

According to a contemporary chronicler, when Catherine de ' Medici was born, her parents, were " as pleased as if it had been a boy ".

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 ".

Another contemporary chronicler, Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo writes that Valdivia offered as a ransom for his life the evacuation of all the Spanish settlements in the Mapuche lands and to give them large herds of animals, but this offer was rejected and the Mapuche first cut off his forearms, roasted and ate them in front of him before killing him and his accompanying priest.

Yet another contemporary chronicler, Pedro Mariño de Lobera, also wrote that Valdivia offered to evacuate the lands of the Mapuche but says he was shortly thereafter killed with a large club by a vengeful warrior named Pilmaiquen, who said that Valdivia could not be trusted to keep his word once freed.

The contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers wrote concerning him:

The principal and almost contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler Sulpicius Severus, who characterized him ( Chronica II. 46 ) as noble and rich, a layman who had devoted his life to study, vain of his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings ( see Gregory of Tours ).

Both Wessex and Kent were ruled by strong kings at that time, but within fifteen years the contemporary chronicler Bede describes Æthelbald as ruling all England south of the river Humber.

The lack of evidence should not obscure the fact that Bede, who was after all a contemporary chronicler, summarized the situation of England in 731 by listing the bishops in office in southern England, and adding that " all these provinces, together with the others south of the river Humber and their kings, are subject to Æthelbald, King of the Mercians.

A contemporary chronicler noted that it was built because " had no resting place between Bourgueil and Amboise along the Loire river ".

Richer, a contemporary chronicler favourable to Odo, asserted that Fulk agreed to surrender but later reneged, claiming the agreement was not binding, though it is uncertain whether this was the case.

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.

Ine abdicated in 726 to go to Rome, leaving the kingdom to " younger men ", in the words of the contemporary chronicler Bede.

His nationality was first addressed by contemporary Spanish chronicler Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, who, in his Historia General de los hechos de los Castellanos en las Islas y tierra firme del Mar Oceano, referred to Cabrillo as Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo Português, Still, historian Henry Kelsey, in his exhaustive 1986 biography Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, writes that Cabrillo appears to have been born in Castilla.

Alan, Abbot of Tewkesbury ( date of birth unknown ) is said by Gervase of Canterbury ( contemporary chronicler ) to be of English ( i. e. non-Norman ) descent.

Another contemporary writer also wrote of Rhys if Roger Turvey is correct in stating that Walter Map's piece Of the King Appollonides deals with Rhys under a pseudonym.

In 2005, Shelley re-recorded " Ever Fallen In Love " with an all-star group, including Roger Daltrey, David Gilmour, Peter Hook, Elton John, Robert Plant and several contemporary bands, as a tribute to John Peel.

Ian Mortimer, focusing more on contemporary documents from 1327 itself, argues that Roger de Mortimer engineered a fake " escape " for Edward from Berkeley Castle ; after this Edward was kept in Ireland, believing he was really evading Mortimer, before finally finding himself free, but politically unwelcome, after the fall of Isabella and Mortimer.

For an introduction to the role of Grassmann's work in contemporary mathematical physics see The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose.

Plant enjoyed great success with Led Zeppelin throughout the 1970s and developed a compelling image as the charismatic rock-and-roll front man, similar to his contemporary in The Who, singer Roger Daltrey ( who adopted the look in the late 1960s ), Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, and his other fellow contemporary, Jim Morrison of The Doors.

As there are no contemporary documents recording the foundation of the castle, it is uncertain when and by whom it was started, but it is supposed that Roger de Poitou, the Norman lord in control of the Honour of Lancaster, was responsible.

The contemporary social commentator of the day Roger North lauded back stairs, of which Belton has two examples ( 5 and 14 on plan ), as one of the most important inventions of his day.

De Gray was elected Bishop of Norwich on about 7 September 1200, although the election was purely pro forma, as acknowledged by a contemporary writer Roger of Howden, who stated that the new bishop " succeeded to the bishopric of Norwich by the gift of King John ".

Roger of Wendover ’ s work is, however, now valued not so much for what he culled from previous writers as for its full and lively narrative of contemporary events, from 1216 to 1235, including the signing of Magna Carta.

A notable contemporary example of this tactic was the claim by the defense in the Roger Clemens perjury trial to have the charges against Clemens dismissed due to " prosecutorial misconduct ", i. e. that the prosecution intentionally introduced video evidence which Judge Reggie Walton had ruled inadmissible, for the purposes of getting, in the words of the defense, " a second bite at the apple ", due to the prosecution's alleged poor performance.

Stubbs conjecturally identified the first part of the Gesta ( 1170 – 1177 ) with the Liber Tricolumnis, a register of contemporary events kept by Richard Fitz Neal, the treasurer of Henry II and author of the Dialogus de Scaccario ; the latter part ( 1177 – 1192 ) was ascribed by Stubbs to Roger of Howden.

Atkinson was founder-member ( with colleagues John Bowstead, Roger Jeffs and Bernard Jennings ) of the group Fine-Artz ( 1963 ), and ( with David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell ) of the group Art & Language ( 1968 – 74 ), two of the most influential collectives in contemporary Western art.

The arms are however accurate as they match those shown in the contemporary portrait of his elder brother Thomas by Roger Leigh

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film " one of the most perceptive, funny, occasionally painful portraits of an American woman I've seen " and commented, " The movie has been both attacked and defended on feminist grounds, but I think it belongs somewhere outside ideology, maybe in the area of contemporary myth and romance.

The main value of the work is seen in the work done by Roger of Wendover for his narrative of contemporary events from 1216 to 1235.

When referring to Kaloyan's realm and subjects, contemporary Crusader sources ( including the works of Geoffroy de Villehardouin, Henri de Valenciennes, Robert de Clari ) other contemporary sources ( like that of William de Rubruquis and Roger Bacon's " Opus Maius "), as well as the letters of the Latin Emperor Henry of Flanders ) represent Kaloyan as King of Wallachia, ruler of Wallachians and leader of Wallachian armies, and sometimes as ruler of Wallachians and Bulgarians.

A few original collections followed, notably Roger Abrahams ’ and Horace Beck ’ s works on contemporary shantying in the Caribbean, yet most publications in the “ song collection ” genre are general anthologies based in Hugill and his predecessors ’ works.

Throughout their years in Europe, despite their lack of funding, Roger and Karen curated several contemporary music concerts in Paris and Italy.

Its length makes finding a source impossible, but it is thought by some scholars to be a retelling of contemporary events, with a Roger Knight de Ware being mentioned in several manuscripts of the time.

It has been suggested by some that the area is actually named after a contemporary of Doiley, Roger de Iveri, also a Norman gentleman who arrived in England with William the Conqueror.

He sang a good deal of the output of Stanford and Arthur Somervell, a few Sullivan vocal warhorses, and a select range of items by contemporary composers such as Percy French, Peter Warlock, Liza Lehmann, Granville Bantock, Eric Coates, Roger Quilter, Thomas Dunhill, Edward German, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst, Landon Ronald, Michael Head, Frank Bridge, Arnold Bax and W. A.

He was a contemporary of Lucas van Leyden, and was influenced by artists who came before him, such as Roger van der Weyden, the great master of Tournai and Brussels, and like him, his compositions were usually framed in architectural backgrounds.