f. 1192. Richard of Devizes.
William Fitz-Stephen.
1202. Alan of Tewkesbury. Roger of Croyland.
after 1198. Peter of Blois.
1223. Giraldus Cambrensis.
Geoffrey de Vinsauf.
Joseph of Exeter.
b. 1136. William of Newbury. after 1201. Roger de Hoveden. fl. 1193. John of Brompton. Radulph de Diceto.
fl. 1200. Richard the Canon. 1207. Walter de Coutances. Gulielmus Peregrinus.
Hugh de Hoveden.
fl. 1174. Gervase of Canterbury. Radulph Niger.
William of Ramsey.
William the Clerk.
Thomas de Bailleul.
Minor writers during the reigns of Richard I. and John. fl. 1214. Geoffrey of Coldingham. Girard of Cornwall.
f. 1193. Nicholas de Walkington.
Maurice of Wales.
Maurice of Ford.
John de St. Omer.
Adam of Dore.
Adam of Einesham.
Robert de Beaufey.
1220. Alexander le Pargiter. A 1172. John Cumyn.
John abbot of Forde.
1199. Hugh de Nonant.
Richard the Prémonstrensian.
John of Tilbury.
Samson abbot of Bury.
John of Wallingford, abbot of St. Alban's.
ADALBERT of Spalding, 319 ADAM of Dore, 468
ADAM of Einesham, flourished 1196, 469
ADAM abbot of Evesham, in 1161, 322
ADAM DU PETIT PONT, died 1180, 245
ADAM the Scot, died 1180, 322
AILMER prior of Canterbury, died
AILRED OF RIEVAUX, born in 1109,
187, made abbot of Revesby and of Rievaux, 188, died in 1166, 190. His character and works, 190-195
ALAN abbot of Tewkesbury, died in 1202, 365
ALBERIC DE VERE, canon of St. Osyth's, 317
ALEXANDER NECKAM, born 1157, died 1217, 449, his works, 450, his poetry, 452-457, his scientific treatises, 457, 458 ALEXANDER LE PARGITER, died 1220, 469
ALFRED, an English writer on sci-
ence, flourished in 1170, 220 ALFRED OF BEVERLEY, the abbre- viator of Geoffrey of Monmouth, 155
ALWIN, an English hermit, 47 ANSELM, born at Aosta about 1033,
49, repairs to Lanfranc at Bec, 50, visits England, 51, made arch- bishop of Canterbury, 53, his dis- putes with king William Rufus, 54-57, and with Henry I. 57-59, died in 1109, his character and works, 59-63. Poems on him by William of Chester, 67. Eadmer's account of his journey from Lyons to Rome, 83
ATHELARD of Bath, a writer on
science, flourished 1110-1120, 94, his travels, 95, his love for the Arabian sciences, 96, 97, his works, 98-101
BALDWIN, archbishop of Canter- bury, died 1190, 291 BARTHOLOMEW bishop of Exeter, died 1186, 248
Beavers in England, described by Giraldus Cambrensis, 390 BECKET, Thomas, see THOMAS BENEDICT monk of Gloucester, lived in 1120, 107 BENEDICT of Peterborough, died 1193, 358
BENOIT DE SAINTE-MAUr, an Anglo-Norman poet, flourished in 1180, 258, his romance of Troy, 259-261, his chronicle of the dukes of Normandy, 262-264 BOZUN, an Anglo-Norman poet, 331
CARADOC of Lancarvan, the histo-
rian, died about 1154, 166 Cato, translations of the Disticha of,
Cistercian order, founded by Stephen Harding, 85
Cities of England, characters of the, 361
CLEMENT of Lanthony, author of a
harmony of the Gospels, flourished in 1180, 265
COLMAN, a monk of Worcester, 46 CONCHES, William de, see William
DANIEL CHURCH, a Latin poet, 313 DANIEL DE MERLAI, a writer on science, flourished in 1175, 227, extracts from his treatise De na- turis inferiorum et superiorum, 228-230
DAVID, an Anglo-Norman poet, 154 DAVID, bishop of Bangor, lived in 1125, 108
Durham, its site described by Tur- got, 72
EADMER, the friend and biographer of Anselm, died 1124, 80, his writings, 81-83
Ely, devastations committed there by king Stephen, 282 England, Alexander Neckam's verses in praise of, 456
Enoch and Elijah, legend relating to them, 183
ERNULPH, bishop of Rochester, author of the Textus Roffensis, died 1124, 79
EVERARD, an Anglo-Norman poet,
author of a translation of Cato's Disticha, 123
Exchequer, old definition of the, 288
FARITIUS, a writer of lives of saints, 47
FITZ-STEPHEN, William, see Wil- liam
FLORENCE of Worcester, an English chronicler, died 1118, 73
GAIMAR, see Geoffrey GARNIER, see Warnier GEOFFREY abbot of St. Albans's, died 1146, 109
GEOFFREY of Burton, died 1151, 179 GEOFFREY of Coldingham, a his-
torian of Durham, died soon after 1214, 466 GEOFFREY GAIMAR, author of a
metrical Anglo-Norman chronicle of England, flourished in 1148, 151 GEOFFREY, dean of Landaff, lived in 1120, 107
GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH, died 1154, 143. Account of his His- tory of the Britons, 144-148, metrical life of Merlin ascribed to him, 148, 149
GEOFFREY DE VINSAUF, flourished under Richard I. 398, his Nova Poetria, 398-402 GERLAND, a mathematical writer, flourished in 1082, 16, his treatise on the Computus, 17 GERARD, archbishop of York, died 1108, 43
GERVASE, of Canterbury, flourished in 1184, 419
GERVASE, of Chichester, flourished in 1170, 217
GERVASE, bishop of Seez, died 1228,
GERVASE OF TILBURY, 283, account of his Otia Imperialia, 284–286, dialogue on the Exchequer attri-
buted to him, 286-289 GILBERTUS ANGLICUS, the first English medical writer, flourished in 1210, 461
GILBERT, archdeacon of Bucking-
ham, died 1129, 108 GILBERT CRISPIN, died 1114, a disciple of Lanfranc, 68 GILBERT FOLIOT, bishop of Here- ford and London, an opponent of Becket, died 1183, 270, his Let- ters, 272, account of him by Guernes du Pont de St. Maxence, 330
GILBERT, bishop of London (Gil-
bertus Universalis), died 1134, 103 GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS, born about
1146, 380, made archdeacon of Brecknock, 381, visits Ireland, 383, recites his Topography of Ireland at Oxford, 384, accom- panies archbishop Baldwin through Wales, 385, his disputes with king John, 387, 388, his works de- scribed, 389-397
GIRARD of Cornwall, 466
GIRARD LA PUCELLE, died 1184,246 GLANVILLE, Ranulph de, see Ra-
GODFREY, of Winchester, died 1107, a native of Cambrai, 33, his epi- grams, 34-36 Gravitation, doctrine of, understood by Alexander Neckam, 458 GUALO, a Latin poet, 314 GUERNES DU PONT DE ST. MAX- ENCE, flourished in 1175, 328 GUISCARD DE BEAULIEU, an Anglo-
Norman poet, his history and writings, 131
GUNDULE, died 1108, made bishop of Rochester by Lanfranc, 41 GUY, bishop of Amiens, died about 1076, Author of a poem on the battle of Hastings, 15
HAMELINUS of Verulam, 46 HELYS of Winchester, an Anglo- Norman poet who translated Cato's Disticha, 124
HEMMING, subprior of Worcester, 46
HENRY I. king of England, writings
attributed to him, 66
Henry II. king of England, his character by Peter of Blois, 375, by Giraldus Cambrensis, 391, 392, by William of Newbury, 408, by Radulph Niger, 423
HENRY OF HUNTINGDON, died after
1154, 167, his Latin poems, 169, his history of England, 170-173 HENRY of Saltrey, 321
HEREBERT of Bosham, flourished in 1188, 269
HEREBERT LOSINGA, bishop of Norwich, died 1119, 75 HERMAN, an Anglo-Norman poet 332
HILARIUS, a Latin poet, disciple of
Abelard, flourished 1125, 91 Historical writers, Ingulf, 28, Tur- got, 71, Florence of Worcester, 73, Eadmer, 80, Simeon of Dur- ham, 101, Ordericus Vitalis, 111, William of Malmsbury, 134, Geof- frey of Monmouth, 143, Gaimar, 151, Alfred of Beverley, 155, Ca- radoc of Lancarvan, 166, Henry
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