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...

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...

William fitzWimund was a Norman landholder in England after the Norman Conquest. FitzWimund was from Avranches in Normandy, where he held land. In Domesday...

contained Galloway, a suggestion thought to explain the possible attacks of Wimund on Bishop Gilla Aldan of Whithorn. The ancient cathedral, however, was left...

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...

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...

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...

parallels to vampire beliefs, and the only source for the bishop-pirate Wimund. The 19th-century historian Edward Augustus Freeman expressed the now outdated...

ecclesiastical unity to the careers of Olaf, King of the Isles, and Bishop Wimund. Previously, there had been numerous bishoprics and recorded bishoprics...

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...

Archbishop of Nidaros (Trondheim) in Norway. Amongst its more famous bishops was Wimund, who according to William of Newburgh became a seafaring warlord adventurer...

appears to have been the shadowy Wimund, Bishop of the Isles. According to the twelfth-century Historia rerum Anglicarum, Wimund began his ecclesiastical career...

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...

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...

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...

Adelise fitz Baldwin eventual heiress [? Matilda] fitz Baldwin m. William fitzWimund m. Ranulf Avenel Roger fitz Gilbert de Clare Lord of Bienfaite and Orbec...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In turn they had between them five tenants: Grinchel, Walbert, Ingemund, Wimund and Justan.[citation needed] Wold Newton is situated on the eastern side...

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...

peace, other sources vaguely refer to mainland depredations wrought by Wimund, Bishop of the Isles (fl. c. 1130–c. 1150). The bloodshed attributed to...

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...

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...

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...

bishop was the native Galwegian – Gilla Aldan. This provoked the wrath of Wimund, Bishop of the Isles, who had previously had jurisdiction over Galloway;...

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...

Matilda) FitzBaldwin, wife successively of William fitzWimund and Ranulf Avenel. William fitzWimund is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding land...