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	Malmesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Malmesbury is an old-established south Cotswold town in south west England in the county of Wiltshire.
		Malmesbury is the oldest borough in England, founded at the start of the 1st century BC.
		Malmesbury is twinned with the German town of Niebüll and partnered with Gien in France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malmesbury (266 words)

	William II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much of William's reign was spent feuding with the church; after the death of Archbishop Lanfranc in 1089, he appropriated ecclesiastical revenues to which he was not entitled, and for this he was much criticised.
		The problem was somewhat mitigated for William by his ability to claim the revenues of the archbishopric of Canterbury as long Anselm remained in exile, and Anselm remained in exile until the reign of William's successor, Henry I.
		William's body was abandoned by the nobles at the place where he fell, because the law and order of the kingdom died with the king, and they had to flee to their English or Norman estates to secure their interests.
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	WILLIAM THE SLIENT - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM THE SLIENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William, however, speedily opened secret negotiations with France in the hope of securing the armed assistance of that power for the carrying out of his ambitious projects of a war of aggrandisement against the Spanish Netherlands and of a rest oration of his brother-in-law, Charles II., to the throne of England.
		William was one of the ablest of a race rich in great men, and had he lived he would probably have left his mark upon history.
		WILLIAM THE CLITO (1101-1128) was the son of Robert, duke of Normandy, by his marriage with Sibylla of Conversano.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIAM_THE_SLIENT.htm (1497 words)

	William of Malmesbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The education William received at Malmesbury Abbey included a smattering of logic and physics; but moral philosophy and history, especially the latter, were the subjects to which he devoted most attention.
		William of Malmesbury, Chronicle of the Kings of England, Translation by Rev. John Sharpe, 1815.
		William of Malmesbury: The Deeds of the Bishops of England [Gesta Pontificum Anglorum], Translated by David Preest, 2002, ISBN 0851158846
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_of_Malmesbury (619 words)

	§6. William of Malmesbury. IX. Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries. Vol. 1. From the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William of Malmesbury possessed many of the highest qualifications of a historian; he had learning, industry, judgment and a wide knowledge of the world.
		The muse of history needs, for her highest service, the aid of the imagination; and William of Malmesbury’s pre-eminence among the twelfth century chroniclers is due to the art which enabled him to give a picturesque setting to his narrative without any sacrifice of accuracy in circumstantial detail.
		William, after all, wrote under the direct patronage of a great noble, and it was only natural that he should have paid some deference to the wishes and interests of earl Robert of Gloucester.
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	GO BRITANNIA! TRAVEL GUIDE: Malmesbury - Britannia's Magical History Tour
		Malmesbury's first important personage is one Aldhelm, a Saxon by birth and related to King Ine of Wessex.
		William of Malmesbury (1095-1143), the town's connection to King Arthur, was the greatest historian of his time and was educated at the Abbey school.
		Malmesbury was the ancestral home of the Hanks family, and one charming tradition has it that the Wiltshire town was the birthplace of Nancy Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
	www.britannia.com /travel/magical/magic4.html (684 words)

	Robert_Curthose
		He was the eldest son of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders, an unsuccessful claimant to the throne of England, and a participant in the First Crusade.
		Their son, William Clito, was born October 25, 1102 and became heir to the Duchy of Normandy.
		William of Malmesbury claims she died as a result of binding her breasts too tightly; both Robert of Torigny and Orderic Vitalis suggest she was murdered by a cabal of noblewomen led by her husband's mistress, Agnes Giffard.
	www.freecaviar.com /search.php?title=Robert_Curthose (1134 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: William of Malmesbury: The Battle of Hastings, 1066
		William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) was a monk and librarian at Malmsbury who in his Gesta regum Anglorum (c.1125) recorded the history of the
		This same standard William sent, after his victory, to the pope; it was sumptuously embroidered with gold and precious stones, and represented the figure of a man fighting.
		William, too, was equally ready to encourage his soldiers by his voice and by his presence, and to be the first to rush forward to attack the thickest of the foe.
	www.albertson.edu /history/courses/102/WCDocs/1066William%20of%20Malmesbury%20The%20Battle%20of%20Hastings.htm (1683 words)

	Eilmer of Malmesbury
		William tells this story as an aside to a description of the appearance of the comet that was later known as Halley's.
		William of Malmesbury, also known as William Somerset, died about 1143 and ranks only after the scholar-monk, the Venerable Bede, as the greatest of the English medieval historians.
		William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum (The Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England.
	www.angelfire.com /electronic/bodhidharma/monk.html (593 words)

	William of Malmesbury Biography / Biography of William of Malmesbury Main Biography
		Of mixed Norman and English descent, William of Malmesbury was born in England between 1090 and 1095.
		William wrote history for moral and didactic purposes, both pious and patriotic (the latter imitative of classical Roman historiography).
		William's last work, and the most valuable to modern historians, is the Historia novella (New History) a continuation to 1142 of the Gesta regum in three books, which includes eyewitness, though not impartial, testimony to the progress of the civil war in England between King Stephen and the house of Anjou.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-of-malmesbury (551 words)

	WILLIAM, GERMAN KING - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM, GERMAN KING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For the life of William I. he draws on William of Poitiers; for the first crusade he mainly follows Fulcher of Chartres; his knowledge of Anselm's primacy comes mainly from Eadmcr; and at least up to 1100, he makes use of an English chronicle.
		The fifth and last book, dealing with the reign of Henry I., is chiefly remarkable for its de-sultoriness and an obvious desire to make the best case for that monarch, whose treatment of Anselm he prudently ascribes to Robert of Mculan (d.
		The historical works of William of Malmesbury were edited by Savile in his Scriptores post Bedam (London, 1596); but the text of that edition is full of errors.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WI/WILLIAM_GERMAN_KING.htm (2144 words)

	Saint Wulstan
		Malmesbury's Life of Saint Wulstan was undertaken earlier this century by a former Archdeacon of Worcester, the Ven JHF Peile who published it as a book in 1934.
		William of Malmesbury recounts that Wulstan fell asleep and had some sort of divine apparition from a bright cloud which descended upon him.
		William of Malmesbury wrote: "There was in the city a wife who often came to Church and would court the Prior with words of flattery.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/5386/wulstan.htm (1280 words)

	BBC - History - Malmesbury: England's Oldest Borough
		William's approach to writing history was quite different from that of his medieval counterparts, and much more like the approach of a modern scholar.
		One of William's stories was about an 11th-century monk called Elmer, who made himself a pair of wings and jumped from the tower of Malmesbury Abbey, flying about 200 metres (220 yards) before crashing and seriously injuring himself.
		Elmer, Aldhelm and William of Malmesbury are all remembered in the stained glass at the Abbey, in a room now used for storage.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/anglo_saxons/malmesbury_02.shtml (423 words)

	Malmesbury Abbey
		Some restoration and alterations were carried out as early as the mid-14th century, but at the beginning of the 16th century the spire and central tower fell, completely destroying the east end of the church.
		There are ancient manuscripts thought to have belonged to the great monastic scholar, William of Malmesbury, four volumes of an early 15th century, exquisitely illustrated, manuscript Bible, old silver and many pictures.
		Malmesbury is such a spectacular abbey, in a quiet unassuming way, and holds an enormous wealth of interesting history and famous connections, both royal and monastic, that it would be a tragedy not to take any opportunity to visit.
	www.theheritagetrail.co.uk /abbeys/malmesbury_abbey.htm (459 words)

	Historia - Volume 12, Issue 2
		William of Malmesbury stands above others for the care he took in getting at historical truth, for the clarity and eloquence with which he expressed it, and for his sound understanding of history's purpose.
		William of Malmesbury was discovering and honing what we would call the science of textual criticism.
		William wrote to be read, so that people would know their past and be instructed by it, for history "adds flavour to moral instruction by imparting a pleasurable knowledge of past events, spurring the reader by the accumulation of examples to follow the good and shun the bad" (GR II.pr.).
	www.credenda.org /issues/12-2historia.php (908 words)

	The Death of William the Conqueror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William Rufus, the younger son, was given custody of England and immediately left to claim his throne, while Henry received five thousand pounds in silver, which he hastened to secure, having it carefully weighed out to make certain that none of his appanage was denied him.
		William was eulogized before the assembled bishops and abbots of Normandy, and a request made that, if ever he had done wrong, he was to be forgiven.
		William Rufus commissioned a memorial for his father, "a noble tomb, which to this day shines with gold and silver and precious stones in handsome style" with an inscription in gold.
	itsa.ucsf.edu /~snlrc/britannia/hastings/williamdeath.html (846 words)

	Hodder History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lady Gytha (Harold’s mother) offered more than his weight in gold for his body, but was refused by the infuriated Duke William, who instead buried him on a nearby cliff, with a stone inscribed: ‘You rest here a king, that you may still guard the shore and sea’.
		Instead he commanded that the body be buried on a nearby cliff ‘in mockery as keeper of the shore and sea which he had recently sought to defend in his insanity’.
		William gave the body to Gytha, who buried it at Waltham, where a church was being built.
	www.kinscape.com /hh/did_harold_die_at_hastings.htm (430 words)

	Encyclopedia: William of Malmesbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, was originally founded in the 10th century by secular canons, but soon came under Benedictine rule.
		Events William I of England, in a letter, reminds the Bishop of Rome that the King of England owes him no allegiance.
		Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: William of Malmesbury (http://www.bartleby.com/211/0906.html) from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907–21.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-of-Malmesbury (1391 words)

	Welcome to Abbey House Gardens, Malmesbury, Wiltshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William of Malmesbury, writing 200 years later, records that Athelstan's body was removed from The Abbey and placed in the Abbot's garden.
		Malmesbury Abbey was one of the last Monasteries to close at the Dissolution.
		William Stumpe, a wealthy clothier, bought numerous properties from Henry VIII and was instrumental in the acquisition of the Abbey building itself.
	www.abbeyhousegardens.co.uk /housestory.htm (578 words)

	Oxford University Press
		Malmesbury Abbey was one of the few English minsters which had a continuous existence from the seventh to the sixteenth century, and the Malmesbury archive is a particularly important witness to the history of Wessex and the West Saxon church in the pre-Viking period.
		The Malmesbury archive poses a particularly difficult editorial challenge, since the manuscripts are generally late and the abbey's scribes were prone to forgery and the 'improvement' of their muniments.
		Charters of Malmesbury Abbey is comprised of editions of thirty-five charters and also a small group of separate boundary surveys, with expert detailed commentaries on their historical and topographical importance.
	www.oup.com /ca/isbn/0-19-726317-8 (345 words)

	Brief History of Malmesbury
		Malmesbury became a centre of pilgrimage enhancing its wealth and trade.
		By the time of the Norman invasion Malmesbury was one of the most significant towns in England.
		As we move into the 21st Century Malmesbury continues to be a pioneering town and we look to the future with confidence.
	www.davidforward.co.uk /history/history.php (773 words)

	William of Malmesbury's Historia Novella (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William of Malmesbury's Historia Novella concerns the period between the death of Henry I (1135) and 1142, about the time of William's death.
		Hence, too, it arose, that he united a daughter of the same earl to his son William, while yet a stripling; and hence it was, that he married his daughter (of whom we began to speak), after her imperial match, to a son of the same Fulk, as my ensuing narrative will show.
		In consequence, when Stephen was bound by the rigorous oath which William archbishop of Canterbury required from him, concerning restoring and preserving the liberty of the church, the bishop of Winchester became his pledge of surety.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW/engl443/malmesbury.html (2602 words)

	William of Malmesbury -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William also formed an acquaintance with Bishop (Click link for more info and facts about Roger of Salisbury) Roger of Salisbury, who had a castle at Malmesbury.
		His one public appearance was made at the council of Winchester in 1141, in which the clergy declared for the empress (Click link for more info and facts about Matilda) Matilda.
		He is considered to be one of the best English historian of his time, (English poet; remembered primarily as the author of an epic poem describing humanity's fall from grace (1608-1674)) Milton’s opinion, that "both for style and judgment" William is "by far the best writer of all" the twelfth century chroniclers.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_of_malmesbury.htm (677 words)

	William of Malmesbury on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives: Lives of SS.
		La teologia agnostica y apofatica de Thomas Hobbes de Malmesbury.
		William of Malmesbury: the Deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta pontificum Anglorum).(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/wmm1alm.asp (333 words)

	William of Malmesbury - Rodney M. Thomson, R. M. Thomson
		William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) was England's greatest historian after Bede.
		Although best known in his own time, as now, for his historical writings (his famous Deeds of the Bishops and Deeds of the Kings of Britain), William was also a biblical commentator, hagiographer and classicist, and acted as his own librarian, bibliographer, scribe and editor of texts.
		He was probably the best-read of all twelfth-century men of learning.This is a comprehensive study and interpretation of William's intellectual achievement, looking at the man and his times and his work as man of letters, and considering the earliest books from Malmesbury Abbey library, William's reading, and his 'scriptorium'.
	www.englishbooks.it /BUS/1843830302/William_of_Malmesbury.htm (126 words)

	William of Malmesbury
		William of Malmesbury was born in Wiltshire in about 1095.
		Malmesbury also used topography and buildings as evidence and was very interested in human character and motivation.
		William's willingness to look critically at primary sources and his interest in cause and effect, helped him become one of the most important historians of the medieval period.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /NORmalmesbury.htm (515 words)

	§7. Henry of Huntingdon. IX. Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries. Vol. 1. From the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Of the early twelfth century chroniclers, Henry of Huntingdon enjoyed, for generations, a popular repute second only to that of William of Malmesbury.
		Henry himself appears to have rated his powers at quite as high a value as William’s; for he prefaces his chronicle with a floridly rhetorical and ambitious disquisition upon the “prerogatives” of history.
		But he possessed neither the learning nor the patient industry of William, and his studied endeavours after rhetorical ornament only serve to accentuate his pretentiousness by the side of his great monastic compeer.
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