Thomas Chestre was the author of a 14th-century Middle English romance Sir Launfal, a verse romance of 1045 lines based ultimately on Marie de France's...
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Alice Chestre (sometimes written "Chester" or "Chestour") (died 1485) was a merchant and a benefactor of the city of Bristol, England. She married Henry...
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Grail Geoffrey Chaucer 14th Middle English The Canterbury Tales Thomas Chestre 14th Middle English Sir Launfal, Libeaus Desconus Geoffrey of Monmouth...
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is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late 14th century. It is based primarily on the 538-line...
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military cemetery: Apremont German military cemetery: Chestres & French national necropolis: Chestres German military cemetery: Consenvoye German military...
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France's probably late-12th-century Anglo-Norman poem Lanval (and Thomas Chestre's later Middle English version, Sir Launfal), Guinevere is a viciously vindictive...
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known only as the "fairy mistress", who was later identified by Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal as Dame Tryamour, the daughter of the King of the Celtic Otherworld...
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Itineraries (c. 1538–43) and says that "there was a Celle of Monkes of Chestre and a Pilgrimage of Our Lady of Hilbyri", though his contemporary description...
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Koko Anana Efoloko, Muzola Ngunga (formerly of Orchestre Kiam), Laza le Chestre, Coco Coluche, Djoe Mile, Derval, Adamo Leovis, Moreno, Athos, Autri, Commando...
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songe, Or elles redden hem for hir plesaunce. 'Sir Launfal', by Thomas Chestre (a retelling of an earlier Middle English lai, 'Landavale', itself a translation...
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Arthur's court and subsequent adventures are related, possibly by Thomas Chestre, in the Middle English version of the story of The Fair Unknown, or Lybeaus...
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Libeaus Desconus (section Thomas Chestre's sources)
Unknown" story, running to about around 2,200 lines, attributed to Thomas Chestre. It is a version or an adaptation of Renaut de Beaujeu's Le Bel Inconnu...
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Thomas Chestre is arguably an adaptation from Renaut's Bel Inconnu (BI), and scholars have disputed over this issue, but one solution is that Chestre drew...
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influenced the 14th-century poems Sir Landevale and Sir Launfal (by Thomas Chestre) as well as two 16th-century versions, Sir Lambewell and Sir Lamwell. Lanval...
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Burgess, Glyn S. (2005). "I kan Rymes of Robin Hood and Randolf Earl of Chestre". In Busby, Keith; Guidot, Bernard; Whalen, Logan (eds.). "De sens rassis":...
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(Chester). 3 & 4 Edw. 6. c. 2 1 February 1550 An Act concerning the City of Chestre, for Wears in the River of Dee. Wells Church dividends and quotidians....
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Tale, itself a Breton lai, in his Canterbury Tales, a poet named Thomas Chestre composed a Middle English romance based directly upon Marie de France's...
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US) Kelly Cherry (1940–2022, US) G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936, E) Thomas Chestre (late 14th c., E) James Wm. Chichetto (born 1941, US) Lydia Maria Child...
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the preest it singeth,/ But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre." Hollister, Henry I, pp. 53–54 King, "Ranulf (I)" King, "Ranulf (I)";...
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by The Pearl Poet Sir Launfal by Thomas Chestre (a remaking of the lai of Lanval) Sir Libeaus Desconus Yvain and Gawain...
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March 1549 An Act for Fines, with Proclamations, in the County Palatine of Chestre. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125)) Sodomy...
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of Vouziers absorbed the former commune of Condé-lès-Vouziers in 1961, Chestres in 1964, Blaise in 1972, and Terron-sur-Aisne and Vrizy in 2016. Vouziers...
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representing the imprisoned lady of Synadoun will do to the hero of Thomas Chestre's fourteenth century Middle English Arthurian romance Libeaus Desconus....
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Chaucer, John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, John Lydgate, Hugh Campeden, Thomas Chestre, John Hardyng, Thomas Norton, Julian Barnes, William of Naffyngton, Anthony...
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include characters called Grelent. The Middle English Sir Launfal by Thomas Chestre is considered a composite, based on Lanval with elements added from Graelent...
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late 15th century the prior was John Chester, one of the sons of Alice Chestre who made donations to the church. In 1524 the priory was at its largest...
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Koko Anana Efoloko, Muzola Ngunga (formerly of Orchestre Kiam), Laza le Chestre, Coco Coluche, Djoe Mile, Derval, Adamo Leovis, Moreno, Athos, Autri, Commando...
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14th-century poet Thomas Chestre who also composed Libeaus Desconus and Sir Launfal. The other two copies are not by Chestre and preserve a version of...
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close of the work. A second ballad describes him as "Harry Braddeshaa, of Chestre abbey monke." Bradshaw disclaims the merit of originality and quotes the...
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scathing about the popular veneration of "Robyn Hood and Ralph Erl of Chestre", he speaks approvingly of "Folvyles lawes". The crimes of the family are...
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