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Richard of Cirencester

Index Richard of Cirencester

Richard of Cirencester (Ricardus de Cirencestria; before 1340–1400) was a cleric and minor historian of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster. [1]

18 relations: Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Bertram, Cologne, Corinium Dobunnorum, Edward the Confessor, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Literary forgery, Order of Saint Benedict, Ortwin, Peterborough, Rolls Series, Rome, The Description of Britain, Thomas Arundel, University of Cambridge, Westminster Abbey, William Stukeley, William the Conqueror.

Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Charles Bertram

Charles Julius Bertram (1723–1765) was an English expatriate in Denmark who "discovered"—and presumably wrote—The Description of Britain (De Situ Britanniae), an 18th-century literary forgery purporting to be a mediaeval work on history that remained undetected for over a century.

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Cologne

Cologne (Köln,, Kölle) is the largest city in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth most populated city in Germany (after Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich).

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Corinium Dobunnorum

Corinium Dobunnorum was the Romano-British settlement at Cirencester in the present-day English county of Gloucestershire.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (Ēadƿeard Andettere, Eduardus Confessor; 1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.

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John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, FBA (28 January 1825 – 1910) was an English classical scholar.

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Literary forgery

Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional writing deceptively presented as true when, in fact, it presents untrue or imaginary information.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Ortwin

Hardwin von Grätz (Hardouin de Graes), better known in English as Ortwin (Ortuinus Gratius; 1475 – 22 May 1542), was a German humanist scholar and theologian.

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Peterborough

Peterborough is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England, with a population of 183,631 in 2011.

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Rolls Series

The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages (Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the is a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources published as 99 works in 253 volumes between 1858 and 1911.

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Rome

Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).

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The Description of Britain

The Description of Britain, also known by its Latin name De Situ Britanniae ("On the Situation of Britain"), was a literary forgery perpetrated by Charles Bertram on the historians of England.

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Thomas Arundel

Thomas Arundel (1353 – 19 February 1414) was Archbishop of Canterbury in 1397 and from 1399 until his death, an outspoken opponent of the Lollards.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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William Stukeley

William Stukeley (7 November 1687 – 3 March 1765) was an English antiquarian, physician, and Anglican clergyman.

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William the Conqueror

William I (c. 1028Bates William the Conqueror p. 33 – 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman King of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087.

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Richard of Cirencestria, Richard of Westminster, Richardus Westmonasteriensis, Speculum Historiale, Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliae, Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliæ, Speculum Historiale de Gestis regum Angliae, Speculum Historiale de Gestis regum Angliæ, Speculum historiale (Cirencester).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_of_Cirencester

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