• Andrew Wyntoun, known as Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1425), was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and, later, a canon...
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    Province of Moray. Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland says that Alexander was holding court at Invergowrie when he was attacked by "men of the...
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    Giric (redirect from Giric I of Scotland)
    Scots chroniclers such as John of Fordun, Andrew of Wyntoun, Hector Boece and the humanist scholar George Buchanan wrote of Giric as "King Gregory the Great"...
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  • famous as the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. 14th century Scottish chronicler and poet Andrew of Wyntoun claims that Findlaech fathered...
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  • resting-place where the bodies of his father and mother and eldest brother were laid.” In his metrical chronicle, Andrew of Wyntoun narrated those events, thus:...
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    Press. p. 860. Endnotes: Andrew of Wyntoun, The orygynale cronykil of Scotland, edited by D. Laing (Edinburgh, 1872–1879); John of Fordun, Chronica gentis...
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  • precedents in earlier chroniclers John of Fordun (IV, xiii-xiv) and Andrew of Wyntoun. A still earlier reference of the 12th century simply states that "King...
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    record and first actual account of the battle, is in Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland which was written by Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1425) in about 1420...
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  • Coluim of Moray. Fourteenth century Scottish chronicler and poet Andrew of Wyntoun suggests that "a third daughter" of Malcolm married Findláech of Moray...
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    scotorum by John of Fordun, and its continuation Scotichronicon by Walter Bower; Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland by Andrew of Wyntoun; and Scotorum historiae...
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  • the accession of King James I. Attributed to Andrew of Wyntoun, a learned scholar of the time, it is one of the only manuscripts composed in Scots verse...
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    Sanctjohnstoun, on a day, bysyde the Blackfreris." Andrew of Wyntoun, (c. 1350-c.1420), The Orygynale Chronykil of Scotland, edited by David Laing, (Edinburgh:...
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    For instance, Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (c. 1420) refers to a figure called "Chwsten Cleek" who, during a time of "sae great default...
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    Andrew of Wyntoun in his Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland: Quhen Alexander our kynge was dede, That Scotlande lede in lauche and le, Away was sons of alle...
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  • the Tower of London, where he died on 8 April 1298. According to Andrew of Wyntoun, Sir Andrew Moray married a daughter of John I Comyn, Lord of Badenoch...
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    Heryot — not identified, no known works WyntounAndrew of Wyntoun (died 1425), author of the Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland Maister Johne Clerk — not identified;...
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  • towards legend by the end of the 14th century, when John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun wrote their histories. Hector Boece, Walter Bower, and George Buchanan...
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    later sources, such as the Chronicle of Melrose, John of Fordun and Andrew of Wyntoun provide more details, accurately or not. The simplest account is that...
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  • of which was dated 1385. Andrew of Wyntoun, a canon regular of St Andrews and prior to the St Serf's Inch Priory in Loch Leven, wrote a chronicle of Scotland...
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  • that Clan MacDuff were descendants of Kenneth III was based on their close connection to royalty. Andrew of Wyntoun reported that Malcolm III (reigned...
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    Gawain Poet (category People from the Borough of Cheshire East)
    Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun. As Cotton MS Nero A X contains the words "Hugo de" added in a later hand, its contents were identified with some of the works...
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    that in hagiography or later medieval sources such as John of Fordun or Andrew of Wyntoun, is not generally regarded as useful beyond its limited potential...
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    chroniclers such as John of Fordun who are following some variants of the Pictish king lists or other materials now lost. Andrew of Wyntoun dates the foundation...
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  • Stewart, Duke of Albany, regent of Scotland date unknown Andrew of Wyntoun, Scottish chronicler (b. 1350) Marina Galina, Dogaressa of Venice Epiphanius...
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  • Vukčić Hrvatinić (d. 1415) William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (d. 1399) Andrew of Wyntoun, Scottish historian (d. 1420) Záviš von Zap, Czech theologian...
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    Cuilén (redirect from Culen I of Scotland)
    Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun. Vol. 4. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons – via Internet Archive. Anderson, A. O., ed. (1922). Early Sources of Scottish...
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  • bishop Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350–c. 1425), Scottish poet, canon, and prior Andrew of Rhodes (died 1440), Greek Dominican theologian Andrew of Carniola...
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    Robin Hood ballads and stories, and in one of the earliest references to Robin Hood by Andrew of Wyntoun in 1420 and by Walter Bower in 1440.[citation...
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    Scottish chroniclers Andrew of Wyntoun and Walter Bower both wrote that a thousand Scots were killed in the battle, while the Chronicle of Lanercost said "few...
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  • years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted: 1350: Andrew of Wyntoun, also known...
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