GERVASE OF TILBURY (fl. 1211)  , Anglo-Latin writer of the See also:

• LATE

late 12th and See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early 13th centuries, was a kinsman and schoolfellow of See also:

• PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
• PATRICK, ST

Patrick, See also:

• EARL

earl of See also:

• SALISBURY
• SALISBURY, EARLS OF
• SALISBURY, ROBERT ARTHUR TALBOT GASCOYNECECIL, 3RD MARQUESS OF (1830-1903)
• SALISBURY, ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF (c. 1565-1612)
• SALISBURY, THOMAS DE MONTACUTE, 4TH EARL OF (1388-1428)
• SALISBURY, WILLIAM LONGSWORD (or LONGESPEE), EARL OF (d. 1226)

Salisbury, but lived the See also:

• LIFE

life of a scholarly adventurer, wandering from See also:

• LAND

land to land in See also:

• SEARCH, or VISIT AND SEARCH

search of patrons . Before 1177 he was a student and teacher of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law at See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna; in that See also:

• YEAR

year he witnessed the See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting of the See also:

• EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

Frederic I. and See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

Pope See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander III. at See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice . He may have hoped to win the favour of Frederic, who in the past had found useful See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments among the civilians of Bologna . But Frederic ignored him; his first employer of royal See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank was See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry fitz Henry, the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England (d . 1183), for whom Gervase wrote a jest-See also:

• BOOK

book which is no longer extant . Subsequently we hear of Gervase as a clerk in the See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William of See also:

• CHAMPAGNE

Champagne, See also:

• CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop of See also:

• REIMS
• REIMS (RHEIMS)

Reims (d . 1202) . Here, as he himself confesses, he basely accused of heretical opinions a young girl, who had rejected his advances, with the result that she was burned to See also:

• DEATH

death . He cannot have remained many years at Reims; before 1189 he attracted the favour of William II. of See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, who had married See also:

• JOANNA (1479-1555)

Joanna, the See also:

• SISTER

sister of Henry fitz Henry . William took Gervase into his service and gave him a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house at See also:

• NOLA

Nola . After William's death the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of Sicily offered no attractions to an Englishman . The fortunes of Gervase suffered an See also:

• ECLIPSE (Gr. €uheo,tis, falling out of place, failing)

eclipse until, some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time after 1198, he found employment under the emperor See also:

• OTTO

Otto IV., who by descent and See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• INTEREST

interest was intimately connected with the Plantagenets .

Though a clerk in orders Gervase became See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

marshal of the kingdom of See also:

• ARLES
• ARLES, KINGDOM OF

Arles, and married an heiress of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good See also:

• FAMILY

family . For the delectation of the emperor he wrote, about 1211, his Otia Imperialia in three parts . It is a farrago of See also:

• HISTORY

history, See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

geography, See also:

• FOLKLORE

folklore and political theory—one of those books of table-talk in which the literature of the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age abounded . Evidently Gervase coveted but See also:

• ILL

ill deserved a reputation for encyclopaedic learning . The most interesting of his See also:

• DISSERTATIONS

dissertations are contained in the second See also:

• PART

part of the Otia, where he discusses, among other topics, the theory of the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire and the geography and history of England . We do not know what became of Gervase after the downfall of Otto IV . But he became a See also:

• CANON

canon; and may perhaps be identified with Gervase, See also:

• PROVOST (through O. Fr. prevost, mod. prevot, Lat. praepositus, set over, from praeponere, to place in front)

provost of Ebbekesdorf, who died in 1235 . See the Otia Imperialia in G . See also:

• LEIBNITZ (LEIBNIZ), GOTTFRIED WILHELM

Leibnitz's Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium, vols. i. and ii . (See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover, 1707) ; extracts in J . See also:

• STEVENSON, ADLA1 EWING (1835- )
• STEVENSON, ROBERT (1772-1850)
• STEVENSON, ROBERT LEWIS BALFOUR (1850-1894)

Stevenson's edition of Coggeshall (Rolls See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 1875) . Of See also:

• MODERN

modern accounts the best are those by W .

See also:

• STUBBS [STUBBES], PHILIP (c. 1555-c. 161o)
• STUBBS [STUnnE], JOHN
• STUBBS, WILLIAM (1825-1901)

Stubbs in his edition of Gervase of See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, vol. i. introd . (Rolls series . 1879), and by R . See also:

• PAULI, REINHOLD (1823-1882)

Pauli in Nachrichten der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen (1882) . In the older biographers the Dialogus de scaccario of See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

Richard Fitz See also:

• NEAL, DANIEL (1678–1743)
• NEAL, DAVID DALHOFF (1838– )

Neal (q.v.) is wrongly attributed to Gervase . (H . W . C . D.) GERVEX, See also:

• HENRI

HENRI (1852– ), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the loth of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1852, and studied See also:

• PAINTING

painting under See also:

• CABANEL, ALEXANDRE (1823-1889)

Cabanel, Brisset and See also:

• FROMENTIN, EUGENE (1820-1876)

Fromentin . His early See also:

• WORK

work belonged almost exclusively to the mythological genre which served as an excuse for the painting of the nude—not always in the best of See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste; indeed, his " Rolla " of 1878 was rejected by the See also:

• JURY

jury of the See also:

• SALON

Salon pour immoralite . He afterwards devoted himself to representations of modern life and achieved See also:

• SIGNAL

signal success with his " Dr Pean at the Salpetriere," a modernized See also:

• PARAPHRASE (Gr. irapa¢pavis, from rrapa4p4av, to relate something in different words, 'raga, beside, and ¢pai"eav, speak, tell)

paraphrase, as it were, of See also:

• REMBRANDT (1606-1669)

Rembrandt's " See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

Anatomy See also:

• LESSON (through Fr. lecon from Lat. lectio, reading; legere, to read)

Lesson." He was en-trusted with several important See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official paintings and the decoration of public buildings . Among the first are " The See also:

• DISTRIBUTION (Lat. distribuere, to deal out)

Distribution of Awards (1889) at the Palais de 1'Industrie " (now in the See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles Museum), " The See also:

• CORONATION (Lat. corona, crown)

Coronation of See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas II." (See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow, May 14, 1896), " The Mayors' Banquet " (1900), and the portrait See also:

• GROUP

group " La Republique Francaise "; and among the second, the See also:

• CEILING (from a verb " to ceil," i.e. to line or cover; of disputed etymology, but apparently connected with Fr. ciel, Lat. caelum, sky)

ceiling for the Salle See also:

• DES

des Fetes at the had. de ville, Paris, and the decorative panels painted in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with Blanchon for the mairie of the 19th See also:

• ARRONDISSEMENT (from arrondir, to make round)

arrondissement, Paris .

He also painted, with See also:

• ALFRED

Alfred See also:

• STEVENS,
• STEVENS, A
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1818-1875)
• STEVENS, ALFRED (1828-1906)
• STEVENS, HENRY (1819—1886)

Stevens, a See also:

• PANORAMA (Gr. -rap, all, and opa,ua, view)

panorama, " The History of the See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century " (1889) . At the Luxembourg is his painting " See also:

• SATYRS (SATYRI)

Satyrs playing with a Bacchante," as well as the large " Members of the Jury of the Salon " (1885) .