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    William of Wrotham or William de Wrotham (died c. 1217) was a medieval English royal administrator and clergyman. Although a late 13th-century source says...
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    Wrotham (/ˈruːtəm/ ROO-təm) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Borough...
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    end of 1204 he had around 50 large galleys available; another 54 vessels were built between 1209 and 1212. William of Wrotham was appointed "keeper of the...
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    Exmoor (category Hills of Somerset)
    Golding, Brian. "Wrotham, William of (d. 1217/18". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 31 May 2015. Greswell, William Henry Parr (1905)...
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    The first Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall and Devon was William de Wrotham, who was appointed during the reign of Richard I on 20 November...
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  • customers. For this reason, King John of England appointed William de Wrotham to report about the construction and repair of ships. Centuries later, Samuel Pepys...
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    appointment of William of Wrotham as Keeper of the King's Ports and Galleys in the early 13th century. According to modern historians, William had a "special...
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    Clere 1190–1195 William de Wrotham 1195–1201 Thomas Basset, Lord Hedendon 1201–1202 Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent 1202–1203 William of Huntingfield 1203–1204...
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    docks were begun by William of Wrotham in 1212, and John summoned his earls, barons, and military advisers to plan an invasion of Normandy. In 1229, declaring...
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    Domus Dei (category Church of England church buildings in Hampshire)
    Rupibus), Bishop of Winchester and William of Wrotham in around 1212 A.D. In 1450 an unpopular advisor to the king, Bishop Adam Moleyns of Chichester was...
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