• Roger of Wendover (died 6 May 1236), probably a native of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, was an English chronicler of the 13th century. At an uncertain...
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    Wendover is a town and civil parish at the foot of the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire, England. It is situated at the point where the main road across...
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    April 2022. (A.D. 1057) Roger of Wendover, Flores Historiarum Giles, J. A.; Roger of Wendover (1899), Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History, vol. 1, London:...
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    doorman at the estate of Pontius Pilate. An early extant manuscript containing the legend is the Flores Historiarum by Roger of Wendover, where it appears...
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    associated originally with the Abbey of St Albans. The first Flores Historiarum was created by St Albans writer, Roger of Wendover, who carried his chronology...
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    at Dore (now a suburb of Sheffield); the Northumbrian king was probably Eanred. According to a later chronicler, Roger of Wendover, Ecgberht invaded Northumbria...
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  • 1199. It is based on the writings by Roger of Howden, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris. Electronic version of this work digitised by the Anglo-Norman...
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    use of recorded evidence was combined with an increased scepticism about two of the most colourful chroniclers of John's reign, Roger of Wendover and...
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    Jessalynn. "James of Vitry (died 1240)". The Crusades – An Encyclopedia. pp. 653–654. Ruch, Lisa M. (2016). "Roger of Wendover". Encyclopedia of the Medieval...
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    (link) Roger of Wendover (1842). Coxe, Henricus (ed.). Flores Historiarum. Sumptibus Societatis. Nennius (2005). Historia Brittonum (The History of the Britons)...
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    monastery on the French island of Ré. Salisbury died not long after his return to England at Salisbury Castle. Roger of Wendover alleged that he was poisoned...
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    The Battle of Lincoln (1217), according to Roger of Wendover Archived 24 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Lincoln: A city on top of the world – Property...
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  • force of archers which opposed the otherwise total occupation of the south-east by Prince Louis of France. A contemporary chronicler, Roger of Wendover, wrote...
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    by Wace, Layamon, Roger of Wendover and Robert of Gloucester among other medieval writers, and it directly inspired the description of Sir Gawain's shield...
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    926. Part of the agreement was that Sihtric should marry Æthelstan's sister Eadgyth also he should be baptised. According to Roger of Wendover, Sihtric...
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    the sincerity of Frederick's illness, and their attitude may be explained by their pro-papal leanings. Roger of Wendover, a chronicler of the time, wrote:...
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    Historia regum AD 1072, ed. Arnold, p. 197; similarly, Roger of Howden, Chronica I, p. 57. Roger of Wendover, Flores Historiarum, ed. Coxe, vol. 1. pp. 402–03...
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    military activity. Standing by her husband won her approval of her contemporaries; Roger of Wendover described her as: A most praiseworthy woman, to be commended...
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    M. (2016). "Roger of Wendover". Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. Giles, J. A. (John Allen) (1849). Roger of Wendover's Flowers of history. London:...
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  • point of convergence. This suggests that Sledd may have been regarded as the founder of the East Saxon house. On no known authority, Roger of Wendover and...
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  • regarded as a tyrant, while Roger of Wendover, a thirteenth-century chronicler, states that he was an unjust king and that the people of Mercia rose in rebellion...
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    on the accounts of medieval chroniclers, in particular writings of Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris. These early historians, including Archbishop Matthew...
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    Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History. Vol. 1. London: Henry G. Bohn. OCLC 633664910. Greenway, Diana, ed. and trans. (1996). Henry, Archdeacon of Huntingdon:...
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    (pdf) "Biography of St Rumwold, University of Buckingham". University of Buckingham. 19 August 2008. "Medieval Sourcebook: Roger of Wendover". Fordham.edu...
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  • The Chronicles of Matthew Paris (Matthew Paris: Chronica Majora) translated by Helen Nicholson 1989. Paris, Matthew, Roger of Wendover, and Richards,...
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  • Wendover Peppermill Wendover, a casino in West Wendover Roger of Wendover (died 1236), English chronicler John Wendover, 14th-century Archdeacon of Lewes...
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    hands cut off, but Roger of Wendover states that he was set free by Coenwulf at some point as an act of clemency. List of monarchs of Kent Frank Stenton...
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    monks of St Albans had long been famous. He inherited the mantle of Roger of Wendover, at that time the abbey's foremost chronicler, after Wendover's death...
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    completely new. The reform of the coinage is not recorded in documentary sources until the thirteenth century, when Roger of Wendover was the only chronicler...
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    d'Aubigny (or d'Albini), English nobleman May 6 – Roger of Wendover, English monk and chronicler May 7 – Agnellus of Pisa, Italian Franciscan friar (b. 1195) June...
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