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RICHARD OF DEVIZES (fl. 1191)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD OF See also:DEVIZES (fl. 1191)  , See also:English chronicler, was a See also:monk of St Swithin's See also:house at See also:Winchester . His birthplace is probably indicated by his surname, but of his See also:life we know nothing . He is credited by See also:Bale with the See also:composition of the Annales de Wintonia, which are edited by Luard in the second See also:volume of the Annales Monastici . If this statement be correct, then the chronicler survived See also:King See also:Richard I . But the Chronicon de See also:rebus gestis Ricardi Primi, by which Richard of See also:Devizes is chiefly known, only covers the first three years of that king's reign; it is practically an See also:account of events in See also:England and the See also:Holy See also:Land during the Third Crusade . For the events of the crusade itself, Richard is a poor authority . But his account of the preparations for the crusade, and of English affairs in the king's See also:absence, is valuable, in spite of some inaccuracies . The author is intensely conservative, steeped in the prejudices of his See also:order, and particularly hostile to the See also:Jews and to the See also:chancellor, See also:William See also:Longchamp . He writes in a vivid and epigrammatic See also:style; his Latin shows the effect of the 12th-See also:century See also:renaissance in its See also:polish and in its reminiscences of classical poets . See the See also:editions of the Chronicon de rebus gestis Ricatdi Primi by J . See also:Stevenson (Eng . See also:Historical See also:Soc., 1838) and by R .

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Chronicles of the Reigns of See also:Stephen, See also:Henry II. and Richard I., vol. iii . (Rolls See also:Series, 1886); the Annales de Wintonia in H . R . Luard's Annales Monastici, vol. ii . (Rolls Series, See also:London, 1864-69) . (H . W . C .

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