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 See also:RISHANGER (c. 1250-c. 1312),
.See also:English chronicler, made his profession as a See also:Benedictine at St See also:Alban's See also:abbey in 1271, of which he perhaps became the See also:official chronicler
.
The most important of his writings is the Narratio de bellis apud See also:Lewes et See also:Evesham
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Though written many years afterwards and See also:drawn from other See also:sources, it is a spirited See also:account of the barons' See also:war
.
He is so See also:great an admirer of See also:Simon de See also:Montfort that this See also:work has been called a hagiography
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He is credited with the authorship of a See also:chronicle covering the See also:period 1259-1306; this has been disputed, but the work is printed under his name by See also:Riley
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Another work of his, of not much importance, is a chronicle entitled Recapitulatis brevis de gestis domini Edwardi, &c
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He is probably not the author of other See also:works commonly attributed to him
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AuruoRITIEs.—Wilhelmi See also:Rishanger chronica et annales, Rolls See also:Series, Introduction ed
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Riley; the Narratio de bellis apud Lewes et Evesham, ed
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Halliwell, See also:Camden Society, 1840
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