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RICHARD OF HEXHAM (fl. 1141)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 298 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD OF See also:HEXHAM (fl. 1141)  , See also:English chronicler, became See also:prior of See also:Hexham about 1141, and died between 1163 and 1178 . He wrote Brevis Annotatio, a See also:short, See also:history of the See also:church of Hexham from 674 to 1138, for which he borrowed from See also:Bede, See also:Eddius and See also:Simeon of See also:Durham . This is published by J . Raine in The Priory of Hexham, its Chroniclers, Endowments and See also:Annals (Durham, 1864-65) . More important is his Historia de gestis regis Stephani et de See also:bello Standardii, very valuable for the history of the See also:north of See also:England during the earlier See also:part of the reign of See also:Stephen, and especially for the See also:battle of the See also:Standard . This history, which is a contemporary one, covers the See also:period from the See also:death of See also:Henry I. in 1135 to See also:early in 1139 . It has been edited for the Rolls See also:Series by R . Howlett in the Chroniclers of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry H. and See also:Richard I., vol. iii . (1886) ; and has been translated by J . See also:Stevenson in the Church Historians of England, vol. iv . (1856) .

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