By the crusader period, a cistern under the former basilica was rumoured to have been the location that Helena had found the True Cross, and began to be venerated as such ; although the cistern later became the Chapel of the Invention of the Cross, there is no evidence for the rumour prior to the 11th century, and modern archaeological investigation has now dated the cistern to the 11th century repairs by Monomachos.

While there are constant rumours that she has affairs with male celebrities in order to build her profile, in some cases she simply creates the rumours herself ; in The Desert Angel ( series 1 ) she confesses to Pat Cash that she started a rumour about having an affair with him.

* A rumour that Alexander has been killed by the Illyrians leads the Thebans and Athenians to take up arms again.

A family rumour that Boothby was her father has been discounted by the most recent and detailed study.

Around this time, a ' Stig is Dead ' rumour, prompted by both many obscure clues within the band's songs and album covers ( including a track which, when played backwards, reportedly said ' Stig has been dead for ages, honestly ') and the fact that Stig had not spoken publicly in five years began to circulate, prompting Barry to stay in bed for a year.

On 21 October 1969, The Beatles ' press office issued statements denying the rumour, deeming it " a load of old rubbish " and saying that " the story has been circulating for about two years — we get letters from all sorts of nuts but Paul is still very much with us.

Young Edith Bouvier Beale ( aka ' little Edie ') has just been confronted about a rumour of promiscuity that her mother, Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale ( aka ' Big Edie ') told her fiancé.

The former assumption has persisted to the present day, with writers of fiction, such as Mary Renault, and the film director Oliver Stone among its proponents, as well as modern historians such as Paul Cartledge, who says: " Rumour had it — and rumour was for once surely correct — that he and Alexander had once been more than just good friends.

During the eventful months which followed, when Strafford was striving in vain to force England, in spite of its visible reluctance, to support the king in his Scottish war, rumour has much to tell of Hampden's activity in rousing opposition.

Given that the conduct of conclaves is strictly confidential and that any cardinal revealing such details would face automatic excommunication, no documentary evidence has ever substantiated or disproved the widely claimed rumour.

Ellett has recorded one rumour that a crew even threw its captain overboard for denying the existence of the ship's Klabautermann.

There is an ancient yew tree ( Taxus baccata ) reputed to be nearly 2000 years old and rumour has it that Knights Templar are buried in the graveyard there, although there is no evidence to substantiate this.

Nevertheless, the notion has persisted as a rumour for many years.

This has led to a persistent rumour of a network of tunnels under the college excavated for this purpose.

Meanwhile, the rumour is spread by Mrs Semprill that Dorothy has eloped with Mr Warbuton, and this story captivates the national press for a while.

Tommy Boyd, among others, has disputed Maconie's claim to authorship of the rumour.

No evidence was found and the rumour has subsequently been regarded as false.

The Russian Federal Service for Defense Contracts ( Rosoboronzakaz ) announced in July 2008 that a new tank ( which rumour has previously referred to as the T-95 ) was due to be introduced in 2009, but development was cancelled in May 2010.

This rumour was started when the Canadiens ' manager, Leo Dandurand, told reporters that Vézina " speaks no English and has twenty-two children, including three sets of triplets, and they were all born in the space of nine years.

Poko Rekords abanded the demo and there has been a rumour that the demo " accidentallly " ended up in the wrong drawer.

He had a pet grey tabby cat named Thatcher ; when the cat died on November 10, 2009, a message sent by Baird using his Blackberry which said " Thatcher has died " resulted in a false rumour to the effect that Margaret Thatcher had died.

There are no records of a skeleton being found and the rumour has not been entered into the 2004 tour booklet.

Anya enters declaring a rumour that the cherry orchard has been sold.

Speculation ( including that of Freud ) has it that later, during the reign of Ramesses II, Moses was influenced by rumour of Akhenaten's revolutionary idea, and grasped the idea of a single supreme God, who especially favoured his people, as an inspirational mechanism that best suited his people held in bondage.

Decades after Mozart's death, a rumour began to circulate that Mozart had been poisoned by Salieri.

Connected with this episode, Herodotus recounts a rumour that this manoeuver by the Persians had been planned in conjunction with the Alcmaeonids, the prominent Athenian aristocratic family, and that a " shield-signal " had been given after the battle.

It was from the Sergenesons that Gardner claimed to have discovered a family rumour that his grandfather, Joseph, had been a practicing witch, after being converted to the practice by his mistress.

At a press conference held later the same day, Hermann Göring was asked by foreign correspondents to respond to a hot rumour that General von Schleicher had been murdered in his home.

In a Q & A, he dismissed as a journalist's invention the rumour that it might have been taken from the Roman playwright Terence and his wife's surname ( his wife was Lori Zwicklbauer ; she later took her husband's surname ).

However, although it had been confirmed on the Blockheads ' official site that Jankel was writing with Williams, the rumour that Chambers was no longer working with him was not official.

The revolt was sparked by the rumour that freedom had been granted to slaves in England, but that the planters were withholding knowledge of it.

On 26 June, the newspaper Libération – associated with Foucault for much of his life – announced his death, also highlighting the rumour that it had been brought on by AIDS.

It appears to have been either a false rumour or a diversion, as at that point thousands of rebels again began crossing the River Wensum around Bishopsgate.

When the young prince was born, a rumour immediately spread that a call for a warming pan had been the pretext for a substitution, implying that James and Mary's baby was allegedly stillborn.

Historians have speculated, on the basis of these contemporary records, that the rumour that the princes had been murdered was deliberately created to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of Henry Tudor and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other likely suspects.

The Sword Blade company arranged to spread a rumour that the Pretender himself had been captured, and the general euphoria encouraged the South Sea share price to rise from £ 100 where it had been in the spring to £ 114.

The rumour in its familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's Londres ( Neichatel, 1770 ), translated as A Tour to London 1772 ; Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London in 1765.

Guillaume de Rochefort, Lord Chancellor of France, who repeated the rumour in the Estates-General in Tours in January 1484, adding that Richard III had " massacred " the princes and then been given the crown " by the will of the people ", may have obtained his information from Mancini's report.

A rumour that the Duke of Cumberland was approaching, made Bonnie Prince Charlie decide to leave with his army, with only £ 1, 000 and 255 pairs of shoes having been handed over.

The crusaders heard a rumour that Antioch had been deserted by the Seljuk Turks, so Raymond sent his army ahead to occupy it, offending Bohemond of Taranto who wanted the city for himself.

Another possible example was a rumour that there had been a German attempt to land on British shores at Shingle Street, but it had been repulsed with large German casualties.