The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Eadward the Confessor. 1868Clarendon Press, 1873 |
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... doubtless much of the exaggeration of a panegyrist , anxious to raise his hero's reputation to the highest point . But it is possible that Magnus might just now take some pains to conciliate Eadward , in order to hinder English help ...
... doubtless much of the exaggeration of a panegyrist , anxious to raise his hero's reputation to the highest point . But it is possible that Magnus might just now take some pains to conciliate Eadward , in order to hinder English help ...
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... doubtless discharged conscientiously and to the best of his ability , were with Eadward always something which went against the grain . His natural place was , not on the throne of England , but at the head of a Norman Abbey . Nothing ...
... doubtless discharged conscientiously and to the best of his ability , were with Eadward always something which went against the grain . His natural place was , not on the throne of England , but at the head of a Norman Abbey . Nothing ...
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... seldom , especially in the early part of Eadward's reign , the foreigners appear to sign charters . They were doubtless jealously watched . HIS LOVE OF FOREIGNERS . 19 conquered soil of England 18 EARLY REIGN OF EADWARD .
... seldom , especially in the early part of Eadward's reign , the foreigners appear to sign charters . They were doubtless jealously watched . HIS LOVE OF FOREIGNERS . 19 conquered soil of England 18 EARLY REIGN OF EADWARD .
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... doubtless hoped , of becoming , at least in the female line , the ancestor of a line of princes . The faults of the great Earl then are manifest . But his virtues are equally manifest . In the eyes of contemporary Englishmen such faults ...
... doubtless hoped , of becoming , at least in the female line , the ancestor of a line of princes . The faults of the great Earl then are manifest . But his virtues are equally manifest . In the eyes of contemporary Englishmen such faults ...
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... doubtless firmly attached himself to the interests of his uncle . He also was , probably at a somewhat later time , raised to an Earldom , seemingly the Earldom of the Middle - Angles , lately held by Thored . " The Earldom held by ...
... doubtless firmly attached himself to the interests of his uncle . He also was , probably at a somewhat later time , raised to an Earldom , seemingly the Earldom of the Middle - Angles , lately held by Thored . " The Earldom held by ...
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Abbey Abbot Abingdon Ælfgar Ætheling Appendix appointment Archbishop banishment Beorn Biographer Bishop Bishoprick brother canonical castle Chron church Cnut consecration crime Crown cyng Danes death Dipl Domesday doubt doubtless Ducis Duke Eadgyth Eadward Ealdred ealle Earldom ecclesiastical ejus England English Englishmen eorl Ethelred father favour Flor Florence foreign French Gemót Gloucester Godwine and Harold Godwine's Gruffydd Harthacnut held Herleva Herlwin honour Housecarls King Eadward King's Kingdom land Lanfranc later Leofric Leofwine looked Magnus Malms Mercia minster monastery monastic monks Norman Normandy Northumberland Northumbrian Peterborough Peterborough Chronicle Petrib Prelates prince quæ quam quod Ralph Regis reign restoration Robert Roman de Rou royal Saint says Scriptt seems seqq shires Siward sons Stigand story Swegen Thegns told Tostig Vita Eadw Waltham Welsh West-Saxons William of Jumièges William of Malmesbury Witan Worcester Chronicle writer þæt þam
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Page 113 - At last he found his death-wound in an inglorious quarreT, in the personal commission of cruelties which aroused the indignation of his own age; and the mighty King and Conqueror, forsaken by his servants and children, had to owe his funeral rites to the voluntary charity of a loyal vassal, and within the walls of his own minster he could not find an undisputed grave. Such was William the Great, a title which, in the...
Page 351 - He is a full believer in Eadward's miraculous power, but he again (ii. 222) lets us see that there were two opinions on the subject. Some people affirmed that Eadward cured the evil, not by virtue of his holiness, but by virtue of his royal descent ; " Nostro tempore quidam falsam insumunt operam, qui asseverant istius morbi curationem non ex sanctitate, sed ex regalis prosapiae haereditate fluxisse.
Page 106 - Washington ; he look on his work as being any the less trustworthy on account of its poetical shape. But of course, whenever he departs from contemporary authority, and merely sets down floating traditions nearly a hundred years after the latest events which he records, his statements need to be very carefully weighed.
Page 268 - Billingsley, and for the restoration of ^Elfgar to his earldom. All that we know of the good old Earl of the Mercians leads us to look on him as a man who was quite capable of sacrificing the interests and passions of himself or his family to the general welfare of his country. § 3. From Harold's first Campaign against Grvffydd to the Deaths of Leofric and Ralph.
Page 157 - ... vadimonium sumere. Quod si ab aliquo fieri contigisset contra hoc decretum publicum : aut de vita componeret, aut a christianorum consortio expulsus patria pelleretur. Hoc insuper placuit universis, veluti vulgo dicitur, ut treuga domini vocaretur.
Page 113 - It is hardly superstitious to point out, alike with ancient and with modern authorities, that the New Forest became a spot fatal to William's house, and that, after the death of Waltheof, his old prosperity forsook him. Nothing indeed- occurred to loosen his hold on England ; but his last years were spent in bickerings with his unworthy son, and in a petty border warfare, in which the Conqueror had, for the first time, to undergo defeat. At last he found his deathwound in an inglorious quarrel, in...
Page 362 - ... inclinabat assensum." Of the charges of sacrilege brought against Godwine and Harold I shall speak in the next Note ; but this may be the best place to quote an entry in Domesday, which seems to charge Harold with defrauding the King. At p. 32 we read of lands in Surrey, " Heraldus tenuit de Rege E. Antequam Heraldus habuisset, defendebat se pro xxvii hidis ; postquam habuit pro xvi hidis ad libitum Heraldi. Homines de hundreda numquam audierunt nee viderunt brevem ex parte Regis qui ad tantum...
Page 420 - THE only writer who puts on anything like a tone of censure with regard either to Harold's conduct at Porlock or to Godwine's plundering along the south coast, is William of Malmesbury, and he does not draw the proper distinction between the doings of father and son. His words (ii. 199) are, " Exsulum quisque, de loco suo egressi, Britanicum mare circumvagari, littora piraticis latrociniis infestare, de cognati populi opibus preedai eaeimias conjecture.
Page 403 - Scaccario (ap. Madox, Exchequer, p. 27). In all these passages (except perhaps in that of Bromton, who calls it " tallagium datum Danis") the Danegeld is described as a tax levied, not to buy off Danes, but to hire mercenaries, whether Danes or others, to resist them. Thus in the " Laws of Eadward" the description given is as follows ; " Denegeldi redditio propter piratas primitus statuta est.
Page 108 - William passed to one who shared largely in his mere intellectual gifts, but who had no fellowship in the greater and nobler elements of his character. To appreciate William the Conqueror we have but to cast our glance onwards to William the Red. We shall then understand how men writhing under the scorpions of the son might well look back with regret to the whips of the father. We can understand how, under his godless rule, men might feel kindly towards the memory of one who never wholly cast away...