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WILLIAM RISHANGER (c. 1250-c. 1312),

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM RISHANGER (c. 1250-c. 1312),  .
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English chronicler, made his profession as a
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Benedictine at St
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Alban's abbey in 1271, of which he perhaps became the official chronicler . The most important of his writings is the Narratio de bellis apud Lewes et
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Evesham . Though written many years afterwards and
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drawn from other
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sources, it is a spirited account of the barons' war . He is so
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great an admirer of Simon de Montfort that this
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work has been called a hagiography . He is credited with the authorship of a chronicle covering the period 1259-1306; this has been disputed, but the work is printed under his name by Riley . Another work of his, of not much importance, is a chronicle entitled Recapitulatis brevis de gestis domini Edwardi, &c . He is probably not the author of other
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works commonly attributed to him . AuruoRITIEs.—Wilhelmi Rishanger chronica et annales, Rolls Series, Introduction ed . H . T . Riley; the Narratio de bellis apud Lewes et Evesham, ed . J .

O . Halliwell,

Camden Society, 1840 .

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