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THOMAS ELMHAM (d. c. 1420)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 297 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:ELMHAM (d. c. 1420)  , See also:English chronicler, was probably See also:born at See also:North See also:Elmham in See also:Norfolk . He became a See also:Benedictine See also:monk at See also:Canterbury, and then joining the Cluniacs, was See also:prior of Lenton See also:Abbey, near See also:Nottingham; he was See also:chaplain to See also:Henry V., whom he accompanied to See also:France in 1415, being See also:present at See also:Agincourt . Elmham wrote a See also:history of the monastery of St See also:Augustine at Canterbury, which has been edited by C . Hardwick for the Rolls See also:Series (1858); and a See also:Liber metricus de Henrico V., edited by C . A . See also:Cole in the Memorials of Henry V . (1858) . It is very probable that Elmham wrote the famous Gesta Henrici Quinti, which is the best authority for the See also:life of Henry V. from his See also:accession to 1416 . This See also:work, often referred to as the " chaplain's life," and thought by some to have been written by See also:Jean de Bordin, has been published for the English See also:Historical Society by B . See also:Williams (185o) . Elmham, however, did not write the Vita et Gesta Henrici V., which was attributed to him by T . See also:Hearne and others .

See C . L . See also:

Kingsford, Henry V . (19oi) .

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