• Rigord (Rigordus) (c. 1150 – c. 1209) was a French chronicler. He was probably born near Alais in Languedoc, and became a physician. After becoming a monk...
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    Wisconsin Press. Rigord (2022). Gaposchkin, M. Cecilia; Field, Sean L. (eds.). The Deeds of Philip Augustus: An English Translation of Rigord's "Gesta Philippi...
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    father's life. Philip was given the epithet "Augustus" by the chronicler Rigord for having extended the crown lands of France so remarkably. After decades...
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    Wales. In the second version, in the chronicle of the French royal clerk Rigord, Geoffrey died of sudden acute chest pain, which reportedly struck immediately...
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    barracks and prison, are of small interest." Parc botanique de la Tour Vieille Rigord (c. 1150 – c. 1209), chronicler (probable birthplace) Jean-Pierre des Ours...
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  • Gerald of Wales (several) L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal (c. 1140–1219) Rigord (1179–1208) Ambroise (1190–1192) Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (1190–1192) Ralph...
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    The stele was first published in 1704 by Jean-Pierre Rigord in an article focused on Rigord's description of the hieratic script; the article represented...
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  • Phoenician alphabet, is found in southern France and published by Jean-Pierre Rigord [fr] as the first ancient Aramaic inscription ever published in full. 1709:...
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    Yasmine Tonna Triq Giuseppe Calì (Giuseppe Calì Street) Triq Abate Rigord (Abate Rigord Street) Triq Enrico Mizzi (Enrico Mizzi Street) Triq il-Prinċipessa...
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  • Other chroniclers, Peter of Blois, Gerald of Wales, Herbert of Bosham and Rigord, were more impressed by the Patriarch's spiritual qualities, describing...
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    eds. (2022). The Deeds of Philip Augustus: An English Translation of Rigord's Gesta Philippi Augusti. Translated by Field, Larry F. Cornell University...
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  • originally from (Ptolemaic?) Egypt, is the Carpentras Stela, published by Rigord in 1704. After 539 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia...
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    Lincoln or Caen. — William the Breton, Phillipidos, iv, 393-6, in Oeuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton, ed. H. F. Delaborde, ii (Paris, 1885) Richard...
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  • Latin scholar. In its final form the Gesta is an epitome of the work of Rigord, who wrote a life of Philip Augustus from 1179 to 1206, and an original...
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    antiquities, the number of texts available for study increased. Jean-Pierre Rigord [fr] became the first European to identify a non-hieroglyphic ancient Egyptian...
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    the Breton, Philippide lib. 6, II, 333-4, in Delaborde (ed.), Oeuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton, 162; J. Bradbury, Philip Augustus, King of France...
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  • his death in 1235. In 1184 Ralph became castellan of Noyon. According to Rigord, he took the Cross alongside Henry II of England and Philip II of France...
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    Jews to Paris and made the churches of God suffer great persecutions" (Rigord). The king adopted this measure from no good will toward the Jews, for he...
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    writer (b. 1141) Petrus Riga, French priest and poet (approximate date) Rigord, French monk and chronicler (approximate date) Ruzbihan Baqli, Persian Sufi...
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    France passing to him. Philip is given the nickname "Augustus" by the monk Rigord for augmenting French lands. August 15 – The cave monastery of Vardzia is...
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  • of founding members was twenty-one, due to the insistence of Jean-Pierre Rigord [fr] that Henri de Belsunce also be offered membership. This was rectified...
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    gun emplacement survives today, located between Burma Road and Dun Luigi Rigord Street. The military heritage of Pembroke Army Garrison is still evident...
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    may have used the "Latin Continuation." Only Gesta Philippi Augusti of Rigord provides the French perspective. German chroniclers recorded the journey...
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  • writer (b. 1141) Petrus Riga, French priest and poet (approximate date) Rigord, French monk and chronicler (approximate date) Ruzbihan Baqli, Persian Sufi...
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  • Chronicle. Nicholson, Helen. "Rigord". The Crusades - An Encyclopedia. pp. 1038–1039. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Rigord. Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th...
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  • France passing to him. Philip is given the nickname "Augustus" by the monk Rigord for augmenting French lands. August 15 – The cave monastery of Vardzia is...
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  • Augustus, King of France. This appointment was no doubt made on the death of Rigord in 1209, and was probably subsequent to his residence at Montpellier. In...
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  • Salernitan medicine over rivals such as the Montpellier school and the "empiric" Rigord. The epilogue to De urinis is a particularly bitter denunciation of Montpellier...
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    Strand), Ta' Xbiex – leading from Il-Gżira to L-Imsida Triq Abate Rigord (Abate Rigord Street), Ta' Xbiex – leading from Ta' Xbiex to L-Imsida From L-Imsida...
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    Raoul Glaber, Helgaud, the Gesta of Louis VII, the chronicle of Morigny, Rigord and his continuator, William le Breton, the monk of St. Denis, Jean de Venette...
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