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WILLIAM OF POITIERS (c. 1020-C. 1090)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 676 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM OF See also:POITIERS (c. 1020-C. 1090)  , See also:Norman chronicler, was See also:born at Preaux, near See also:Pont Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman See also:family . After serving as a soldier he studied at See also:Poitiers, and then returning to See also:Normandy became See also:chaplain to See also:Duke See also:William (William the Conqueror) and See also:archdeacon of See also:Lisieux . He wrote an eulogistic See also:life of the duke, the earlier and concluding parts of which are lost; and Ordericus Vitalis, who gives a See also:short See also:biography of him in his Historic ecclesiastica, says that he also wrote verses . William's Gesta Guilclmi II. See also:ducis Normannorum, the extant See also:part of which covers the See also:period between 1047 and io68, is valuable for details of the Conqueror's life, although untrustworthy with regard to affairs in See also:England . According to See also:Freeman, " the See also:work is disfigured by his See also:constant spirit of violent partisanship." It was written between 1071 and 1077, and was used by Ordericus Vitalis . The Gesta was first published by A . See also:Duchesne in the Historiae Normannorum scriptores (See also:Paris, 1619) ; and it is also found in the Scriptores rerum gestarum Willelmi Conquestoris of • J . A . See also:Giles (See also:London, 1845) . There is a See also:French See also:translation in tome See also:xxix. of See also:Guizot's Collection See also:des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de See also:France (Paris, 1826) . See G . Korting, Wilhelms von Poitiers Gesta Guilelmi ducis (See also:Dresden, 1875) ; and A .

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Molinier, See also:Les See also:Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii . (Paris, 1903) .

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