• The Gesta Regum Anglorum (Latin for "Deeds of the Kings of the English"), originally titled De Gestis Regum Anglorum ("On the Deeds of the Kings of the...
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  • Gesta Regum Anglorum, where he professes his admiration for the man. In fulfilment of this idea, William completed in 1125 his Gesta Regum Anglorum ("Deeds...
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    after the events which they describe. Arthur appears briefly in the Gesta Regum Anglorum ("Deeds of the Kings of the English") by William of Malmesbury in...
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  • death of Bede. One of William's themes in the Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, as in his Gesta Regum Anglorum, is that the Normans' invasion and conquest of...
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    is within the historical work Gesta Regum Anglorum. Commissioned by Queen Matilda of England around 1118, Gesta Regum was written in Latin with the first...
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  • Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and tr. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History...
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  • Gesta Regum Anglorum, "Deeds of the kings of the English", c. 1125 Gesta Regum Britanniae, "Deeds of the Kings of Britain", poem c. 1240s Gesta regum...
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    Scani or Scandza (Scania), and according to William of Malmesbury (Gesta regum Anglorum) he was later chosen as King of the Angles, reigning from Schleswig...
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    Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum 5.419 (ed. and trans. Mynors, Thomson, and Winterbottom, 1998, pp. 758–763); Simeon of Durham, Historia regum 100.199 (ed...
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    the River Humber with a strong fleet. Another influential work, Gesta regum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury (1127) adds the detail that Æthelstan "purposely...
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  • legendary ruler of the Danish Scyldings. William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum presents a third variant that tries to harmonize the two alternatives...
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    Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum. Ed. and trans. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson, and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History...
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  • Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and tr. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History...
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  • Malmesbury, Deeds of the English Kings (Gesta regum Anglorum) 449–1120 Symeon of Durham, History of the Kings (Historia regum) 616–1129 Henry of Huntingdon, History...
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    whose family descended King Æthelwulf. William of Malmesbury in his Gesta Regum Anglorum wrote: . . . Sceaf. Iste, ut ferunt, in quondam insulam Germaniae...
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    Odo II of Champagne. It was reported by William of Malmesbury (Gesta regum Anglorum, Vol. i, pp. 211–12) and Wace (pt. iii, II, 3212–14) that Robert...
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  • Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and tr. R.A.B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History...
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    oversimplify a more complex situation. Ambrosius appears briefly in the Gesta Regum Anglorum ("Deeds of the Kings of the English") by William of Malmesbury. Despite...
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  • Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and tr. R.A.B. Mynors, R.M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History...
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    Abbey's prestige – and thus its pilgrim trade and prosperity" In his Gesta Regum Anglorum (History of The Kings of England, finished in 1125), William of Malmesbury...
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    histories, such as William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum, recount that Harold died by an arrow wound...
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  • Firth, Early English Queens, pp. 163–165. William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, pp. 256–259. Gaimar, History of the English, pp. 208–211. Cyril...
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    abandoned women. Gesta Regum Anglorum William does, however, add some detail, no doubt because of a good local knowledge, in De Gestis Regum Anglorum book I, chapter...
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    Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and tr. R.A.B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History...
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    Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and tr. R.A.B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, William of Malmesbury. Gesta Regum Anglorum. The History...
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  • Annales Cambriae, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum and De Antiquitate Glastoniensis Ecclesiae, along with texts from...
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    Abbey who wrote on astrology. All that is known of him is from the Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings), written by the eminent medieval historian...
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    Thomson, R. M.; Winterbottom, M., eds. (1998). William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press....
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    Rodney M.; Winterbottom, Michael, eds. (1998). William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings (in Latin and English). Vol. I...
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    Thomson, R. M.; Winterbottom, M., eds. (1998). William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820678-1...
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