• Richard of Devizes (fl. late 12th century), English chronicler, was a monk of St Swithin's house at Winchester. His birthplace is probably indicated by...
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    Devizes (/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/) is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received...
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    of Thomas Becket (1170). Although Richard of Devizes admired Eleanor's perseverance in supporting her son Richard, all of them expressed negative views...
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    elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker of the Wars of the Roses), and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess...
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    he was one of four men named bishop in 1189, medieval chronicler Richard of Devizes wrote that the four new bishops were "men of no little virtue and...
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    she was imprisoned a second time in the Tower, and was later moved to Devizes Castle. In January 1330 she was released and pardoned after agreeing to...
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  • Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (1190–1192) Ralph of Coggeshall (1066–1223) Richard of Devizes (1189–1192) Roger of Howden (–1201) Walter of Coventry (–1225) Roger...
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    around the time of his accession, including Richard of Devizes, William of Newburgh, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph de Diceto. These historians were generally...
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    episodes parallel those in Richard of Devizes chronicle and Adémar of Chabanne's Chronicon. Richard Coer de Lyon (‘Richard the Lionheart’) survives in...
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  • death late in 1189 the widowed Hawise was described by chronicler Richard of Devizes as "a woman who was almost a man, lacking nothing virile except the...
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    Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory. Wiltshire Record Society Publications, Devizes, Wiltshire, UK. Reed, Paul C, 2002. "Countess Ida, Mother of William Longespée...
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    Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections. He contested Devizes for the Labour Party in the 1970 election and then again in February 1974...
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    Chroniclers Richard of Devizes, William of Newburgh, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph de Diceto were generally unsympathetic to John's behaviour under Richard, but...
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    Bromham 1760: George Flower, of Devizes 1761: Scrope (otherwise Scroop) Egerton, of Salisbury 1762: Prince Sutton, of Devizes 1763: John Talbot of Lacock...
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    Crusaders Tageno and Roger of Howden, and the narratives of Richard of Devizes, Ralph de Diceto, Ralph of Coggeshall and Arnold of Lübeck. The Arabic...
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    almost a century. Captured after the battle, Robert was imprisoned in Devizes Castle in Wiltshire for twenty years before being moved to Cardiff. In...
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    William Cunnington for Sir Richard Colt Hoare. The finds, including worked gold objects, are displayed at Wiltshire Museum in Devizes. Bush Barrow lies around...
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    imprisoned at Devizes Castle. When Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke rebelled against the king in 1233, the men holding Hubert de Burgh captive released...
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    of Devizes. The parish includes the hamlet of Conock, about half a mile west of Chirton village. Both settlements are just north the A342 Devizes-Andover...
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    Society of Cymmrodorion, Vol. XXX, pp. 130–1". 1877. George Simpson & Co. (Devizes), 1920. (in Latin); Gerald of Wales. Translated by W.S. Davies as The Book...
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    also took part in successful sieges at Bridgwater, Sherborne, Bristol, Devizes, and Winchester, then spent the first half of 1646 mopping up resistance...
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  • Reform Wiltshire. Retrieved 13 January 2024. "Declan Baseley – Chippenham, Devizes and North Wiltshire". Retrieved 22 February 2024. "Wiltshire MP decides...
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    5.5 miles (9 km) west of Marlborough and 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Devizes. Much of the village is encircled by the prehistoric monument complex also...
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    Cambridge were instructed to flee to Norwich, and those of Marlborough to Devizes. The Jews of Gloucester were ordered to move to Bristol, but were worried...
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    of Melksham, Wiltshire, England. It lies about 3.5 miles (6 km) west of Devizes and 5.5 miles (9 km) northeast of the county town of Trowbridge. The parish...
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    Oakley and Alex Woodcock recently discovered an exhibitionist couple at Devizes, who seem to represent fertility. The faces of some figures are striated...
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    Iceberg that sank the Titanic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    of red paint up for auction. The auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes (England) estimated it at 10,000 to 15,000 pounds. In that CNN report,...
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    England. Retrieved 10 November 2022. "Malmesbury Abbey". Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette. Devizes. 1 October 1846. Retrieved 26 September 2015 – via British...
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    Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, Vol. XXX, pp. 130–31. George Simpson & Co. (Devizes), 1920. (in Latin) Gerald of Wales. Translated by W.S. Davies as The Book...
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    of the crusade of Richard Coeur de Lion by Richard of Devizes and Geoffrey de Vinsauf and of the crusade of St. Louis, by Lord John de Joinville. Amitai-Preiss...
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