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Assonance seems nearly as severe a curb, although in a celebrated passage William of Malmesbury declares that A Song Of Roland was intoned before the battle commenced at Hastings.
During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.
William of Malmesbury says that Ealdred, by " amusing the simplicity of King Edward and alleging the custom of his predecessors, had acquired, more by bribery than by reason, the archbishopric of York while still holding his former see.
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.
Besides the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the medieval writers William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Geoffrey of Monmouth used his works as sources and inspirations.
* William of Malmesbury ( c 1095 – c1143 )
William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.
Æthelstan's campaign is reported by in brief by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and later chroniclers such as John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Symeon of Durham add detail to that bald account.
John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury add some lively detail by suggesting that Edmund had been feasting with his nobles, when he spotted Leofa in the crowd.
" The chronicler William of Malmesbury asserts that Henry once remarked that an illiterate king was a crowned ass.
Other material from Thomas of Elmham, Gervase of Canterbury, and William of Malmesbury, later medieval chroniclers, adds little to Bede's account of Justus ' life.
Fulcher's chronicle was very popular and was used as a source by other historians in the west, such as Orderic Vitalis and William of Malmesbury.
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.
Some Medieval commentators, following William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the Meic Uilleim.
According to William of Malmesbury ( c. 1080 – c.
Around forty years later William of Malmesbury believing the Abbey older, said that David visited Glastonbury only to rededicate the Abbey and donate a travelling altar including a great sapphire.
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.
According to William of Malmesbury, William Rufus was " well set ; his complexion florid, his hair yellow ; of open countenance ; different coloured eyes, varying with certain glittering specks ; of astonishing strength, though not very tall, and his belly rather projecting.
William of Malmesbury in his account of William's death stated that the body was taken to Winchester Cathedral by a few countrymen.
* William of Malmesbury, English historian
** William of Malmesbury, English historian ( b. 1080 )
Historians have puzzled over Edward's intentions for the succession since William of Malmesbury in the early 12th century.
* William of Malmesbury, The History of the English Kings, i, ed. and trans.
William of Malmesbury asserts that Godwin had been overwhelmed " in power and in numbers " by Harold.

William and medieval
Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.
The Domesday Book was undertaken in 1086 by William I of England so that he could properly tax the land he had recently conquered in medieval Europe.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, John Horace Round and Frederic William Maitland, both historians of medieval Britain, arrived at different conclusions as to the character of English society before the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Initially the medieval Arthurian legends were of particular interest to poets, inspiring, for example, William Wordsworth to write " The Egyptian Maid " ( 1835 ), an allegory of the Holy Grail.
Luxembourg, somewhat diminished in size ( as the medieval lands had been slightly reduced by the French and Prussian heirs ), was augmented in another way through the elevation to the status of grand duchy and placed under the rule of William I of the Netherlands.
Generic map of a medieval manor. William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1923
Central to Hardin's article is an example ( first sketched in an 1833 pamphlet by William Forster Lloyd ) involving medieval land tenure in Europe, of herders sharing a common parcel of land, on which they are each entitled to let their cows graze.
William Morris was a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and translations of ancient and medieval texts.
However, this conflict was symptomatic of medieval English politics, as exemplified by the murder of Thomas Becket during the reign of the later Plantagenet king Henry II, and indeed by Henry VIII's actions centuries later, and as such should not be seen as a defect of William II's reign in particular.
One school of thought supports the Norman case that Edward always intended William the Conqueror to be his heir, accepting the medieval claim that Edward had already decided to be celibate before he married, but most historians believe that he hoped to have an heir by Edith at least until his quarrel with Godwin in 1051.
William of Tyre ( c. 1130 – 29 September 1186 ) was a medieval prelate and chronicler.
Alan V. Murray, however, has argued that, at least for the accounts of Persia and the Turks in his chronicle, William relied on Biblical and earlier medieval legends rather than actual history, and his knowledge " may be less indicative of eastern ethnography than of western mythography.
As a medieval Christian author William could hardly avoid hostility towards the kingdom's Muslim neighbours, but as an educated man who lived among Muslims in the east, he was rarely polemical or completely dismissive of Islam.
Despite his biases and errors, William " has always been considered one of the greatest medieval writers.
The film follows the story of William Thatcher, a peasant masquerading as a knight, along with his companions in the world of medieval jousting.
Jocelyn's appearance combines medieval and modern styles, and the armor Kate makes for William is engraved with a symbol resembling the Nike logo.
* William Marshal is a significant secondary character in the novel The Witch Hunter by Bernard Knight, in the author's John Crowner medieval mystery series, published in 2004.
All of the church's medieval glass was destroyed by William Dowsing in 1644 ; the only stained glass windows in the church are the east windows over the altar ( 1954, by Sir Ninian Comper ) and the west window below the grand tower.
Both are medieval bells, the sixth being cast around 1538 by William Barker and the seventh by Brasyers of Norwich around 1513.
William Shakespeare used the medieval story again in his play Troilus and Cressida ( 1609 ).

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