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    Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes) is a chronicle originally created by the monk William of Jumièges just before 1060. In 1070 William...
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    sank much of the fleet. Robert made a safe landing in Guernsey. Gesta Normannorum Ducum stated that King Cnut sent envoys to Duke Robert offering to settle...
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  • Roman Emperor Louis the Pious. Gesta Normannorum Ducum, "Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy", 11th century, extended in 12th. Gesta principum Polonorum, "Deeds...
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    California Press. Van Houts, Elizabeth M.C., ed. (1992a). The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni...
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    (1840). Magni rotuli scaccarii Normanniæ sub regibus Angliæ. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni...
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    la Trinité at Vendôme. The first mention of Geoffrey II in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum reads: "Geoffrey, count of the Angevins, nicknamed Martel, a treacherous...
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    Jumièges was the original compiler of the history known as the Gesta Normannorum Ducum ("Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans"), written in about 1070. This...
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    (ed. and trans. Johnson, 1990, pp. 164–165), Robert of Torigni, Gesta Normannorum ducum (ed. and trans. E. van Houts, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 216–219, 246–251...
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  • and 1015, his Historia Normannorum—also known as Libri III de moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum and Gesta Normannorum—was dedicated to Adalberon...
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  • Archaeological and Topographical Journal, No. 9 (1886), p. 261 The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni...
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    Boydell and Brewer Incorporated. 2006. Dudo,Historia Normannorum The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vatalis, and Robert of...
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  • 1113 compilation. In the additions Orderic Vitalis made to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Norman Dukes), he states that prior to his death...
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    name Loðbrók are first attested by the 11th-century texts Gesta Normannorum ducum and Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum. Whilst the former makes...
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    Press. ISBN 978-0851155524. Elizabeth van Houts, ed. (1992). The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni....
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    efforts were a continuation and revision of William of Jumièges' Gesta normannorum ducum, a broad history of the Normans and their dukes from the founding...
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  • Van Houts, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, 1992, 1:102-3 n. 5 Albu, The Normans in their histories, 2001, 69. Van Houts, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, 1992, 1:78-9...
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    Helie of Burgundy, daughter of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had five children, three sons and two daughters...
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    Roberts (1862). Republished 2002 by Adamant Media Corporation. Available online here. William of Jumièges, et al. Gesta Normannorum Ducum. About 1070....
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    Mauger (or Malger according to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum) was born around 1019 near Dieppe. He was the younger son of Richard II, Duke of Normandy,...
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  • century additions made by Norman chronicler Orderic Vitalis to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum report that William the Conqueror was born at Falaise, in Normandy...
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  • text connected with, but independent of, William of Jumièges's Gesta Normannorum Ducum. Surviving in full in just one manuscript, it describes the death...
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    Robert is best known as the last of the three contributors to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum ('Deeds of the Norman Dukes'), a chronicle originally written by...
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    Great Yahya ibn Ali ibn Hammud al-Mu'tali, Hammudid caliph The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni...
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    Normandy: Gesta Normannorum Ducum De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum by Dudo of Saint-Quentin Gesta Guillelmi by William of Poitiers Gesta regum...
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    Harold". This conflicts with Orderic's own earlier additions to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum, where he instead named Harold's fiance as William's daughter,...
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    Harold". This conflicts with Orderic's own earlier additions to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum, where he instead named Harold's fiance as William's daughter,...
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    commissioned the Norman monk William of Jumièges to extend the Gesta Normannorum Ducum chronicle. 1078 – The Proslogion is written by Anselm of Canterbury...
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    (Poulet-Malassis, Imprimeur-Libraire, Place Bourbon, 1805), p. 24 The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni...
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    of the pro-Norman chronicler William of Jumièges who wrote the Gesta Normannorum Ducum about 1070. Ruined in the first quarter of the 19th century, the...
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    Brittany (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 2008), p. 38 The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni...
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