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    Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (Latin: Matthæus Parisiensis, lit. 'Matthew the Parisian'; c. 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk...
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    particular writings of Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris. These early historians, including Archbishop Matthew Parker, were influenced by contemporary concerns...
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  • Matthew of Westminster was long regarded as the author of the Flores Historiarum (in fact written by Matthew Paris), and is now thought never to have existed...
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    British Library (Cotton MS Otho B V), and in the version adapted by Matthew Paris which forms the first part of his Chronica Majora (ed. Henry Richards...
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    burning, beheading, and quartering. The 13th-century English chronicler Matthew Paris described how in 1238 "a certain man at arms, a man of some education...
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    Dallas–Fort Worth. February 10, 2015. Retrieved May 3, 2015. Boyd, Matthew. "Paris officers remember deadly tornado of 1982". Archived from the original...
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    The Chronica Majora is the seminal work of Matthew Paris, a member of the English Benedictine community of St Albans and long-celebrated historian. The...
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    as an annex of the cathedral school of Paris. The earliest historical reference to it is found in Matthew Paris's reference to the studies of his own teacher...
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    established by two chroniclers writing after his death, Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris, the latter claiming that John attempted conversion to Islam in exchange...
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  • services; and called "Curtein" in the Chronicle of 13th-century monk Matthew Paris, in which he identifies it with the "Sword of Edward the Confessor"...
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