Wimund was a bishop who became a seafaring warlord adventurer in the years after 1147. His story is passed down to us by 12th-century English historian...
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co-heiress. He also had a large number of bastards, probably including Wimund of the Isles.[citation needed] It is now presumed[by whom?] that Domnall...
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William fitzWimund was a Norman landholder in England after the Norman Conquest. FitzWimund was from Avranches in Normandy, where he held land. In Domesday...
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contained Galloway, a suggestion thought to explain the possible attacks of Wimund on Bishop Gilla Aldan of Whithorn. The ancient cathedral, however, was left...
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William of Newburgh, Historia rerum anglicarum, Book 1 Ch. 24, "Of bishop Wimund, his life unbecoming a bishop, and how he was deprived of his sight", Full-text...
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estates to his three sisters. Of William Fitz Duncan's other sons, Bishop Wimund had already been blinded, emasculated and imprisoned at Byland Abbey before...
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Pierre Abélard. He was castrated by relatives of his lover, Héloïse. Bishop Wimund, a 12th-century English adventurer and invader of the Scottish coast, was...
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parallels to vampire beliefs, and the only source for the bishop-pirate Wimund. The 19th-century historian Edward Augustus Freeman expressed the now outdated...
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ecclesiastical unity to the careers of Olaf, King of the Isles, and Bishop Wimund. Previously, there had been numerous bishoprics and recorded bishoprics...
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North Yorkshire Listed buildings in Byland with Wass Battle of Old Byland Wimund – English bishop, later turned pirate, was held here after his capture in...
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Archbishop of Nidaros (Trondheim) in Norway. Amongst its more famous bishops was Wimund, who according to William of Newburgh became a seafaring warlord adventurer...
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appears to have been the shadowy Wimund, Bishop of the Isles. According to the twelfth-century Historia rerum Anglicarum, Wimund began his ecclesiastical career...
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of Bishop Wimund of the Isles, who seems to have regarded the area as his natural area of authority. William of Newburgh records that Wimund made an attack...
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related to the old rulers of Moray, as may also have been the mysterious Wimund. Later MacHeth claimants to Moray were unsuccessful. David I of Scotland's...
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Tenure Incumbent Notes 1134–38 to c.1148 Wimund Also known as Reymundus c.1148 Nicholas (bishop-elect) 1151 to 1154 John (I) Formerly a monk of Sées, Normandy...
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Adelise fitz Baldwin eventual heiress [? Matilda] fitz Baldwin m. William fitzWimund m. Ranulf Avenel Roger fitz Gilbert de Clare Lord of Bienfaite and Orbec...
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mission to establish the first bishopric on the Isle of Man, and appointed Wimund as the first bishop. He soon afterwards embarked with a band of followers...
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the son of Alfleda, descended from the ancient royal race of Mercia, and Wimund, son of Wiglaf, actually reigning under the suzerainty of the kings of Wessex...
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2743°W / 51.5826; -0.2743 (Kingsbury) OXF 40,1 Black Bourton Oxfordshire Wimund of Tessel £4.00 51°43′59″N 1°35′24″W / 51.733°N 1.59°W / 51.733; -1.59...
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origins of the name probably consist of a personal name such as Wigmund or Wimund, with hām meaning village or settlement, or hamm meaning a river meadow...
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depredations wrought on the Scottish mainland by Óláfr's leading ecclesiast, Wimund, Bishop of the Isles. Confirmation of Óláfr's concern over the royal succession...
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In turn they had between them five tenants: Grinchel, Walbert, Ingemund, Wimund and Justan.[citation needed] Wold Newton is situated on the eastern side...
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1147. Paynel married twice. His first wife was a daughter of William fitzWimund. His second wife was Avice, the widow of William de Courcy and daughter...
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peace, other sources vaguely refer to mainland depredations wrought by Wimund, Bishop of the Isles (fl. c. 1130–c. 1150). The bloodshed attributed to...
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of Man (1696–1828) Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (1773–present) Wimund - 12th century, first Bishop of the Isle of Man, warlord Internment camps...
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king. Shortly after his death, William fitz Duncan's illegitimate son, Wimund, bishop of the Isles, attempted to gain his father's lands in Moray in a...
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daughter and sole-heiress of Robert d'Avranches, who was son of William fitzWimund by a daughter of Baldwin fitzGilbert. She married firstly William de Curci...
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bishop was the native Galwegian – Gilla Aldan. This provoked the wrath of Wimund, Bishop of the Isles, who had previously had jurisdiction over Galloway;...
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depredations wrought on the Scottish mainland by Óláfr's leading ecclesiast, Wimund, Bishop of the Isles. Confirmation of Óláfr's concern over the royal succession...
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Matilda) FitzBaldwin, wife successively of William fitzWimund and Ranulf Avenel. William fitzWimund is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding land...
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