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Hace 3 días · The medieval chronicler Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) had topography, history, and current events alike in mind when he observed that Wales is a “country very strongly defended by high mountains, deep valleys, extensive woods, rivers, and marshes; insomuch that from the time the Saxons took possession of the island the ...
Hace 3 días · The following is a list of works in print and manuscript which are cited in the text in abbreviated form and is not an exhaustive list of works consulted. Unless otherwise stated, place of publication is London.
Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Itinerary, states that a few years after, Grufydd's wife Gwenllian, attended by her two sons, led in person a body of troops into the vicinity of this fortress, where she was defeated, made prisoner, and put to death, with several of her followers, by Maurice de Londres, grandson of William.
Hace 1 día · Chroniclers such as Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales), William of Newburgh and Walter Map later implied that something happened between Henry and Eleanor (eleven years his senior) that contributed to the dissolution of her marriage. By this stage, her reputation badly damaged, Eleanor's influence at court was waning.
Hace 3 días · , 'Medieval Wales', in History Theses 1901-1970: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom, (London, 1976) pp. 61-63.
Hace 4 días · Not the least valuable service rendered to history by the two documents which record these proceedings is that of enabling us to fix the exact site of the ancient Chapel of Saint Piran, referred to by Giraldus Cambrensis as having been visited by King Henry II. on his way home from Ireland in 1172.
Hace 4 días · Giraldus Cambrensis, in his description of the island, gives an account of a small cavity in a rock near the entrance to it, from which, on applying the ear, proceeded a noise resembling that of blacksmiths at work, the blowing of bellows, strokes of hammers, grinding of tools, and roaring of furnaces.
