Richard of Devizes (fl. late 12th century), English chronicler, was a monk of St Swithin's house at Winchester. His birthplace is probably indicated by...
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Devizes (/dɪˈvaɪzɪz/) is a market town and civil parish in Wiltshire, England. It developed around Devizes Castle, an 11th-century Norman castle, and received...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine (redirect from Éléonore de Guyenne)
of Thomas Becket (1170). Although Richard of Devizes admired Eleanor's perseverance in supporting her son Richard, all of them expressed negative views...
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episodes parallel those in Richard of Devizes chronicle and Adémar of Chabanne's Chronicon. Richard Coer de Lyon (‘Richard the Lionheart’) survives in...
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Itinerarium Regis Ricardi (1190–1192) Ralph of Coggeshall (1066–1223) Richard of Devizes (1189–1192) Roger of Howden (–1201) Walter of Coventry (–1225) Roger...
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she was imprisoned a second time in the Tower, and was later moved to Devizes Castle. In January 1330 she was released and pardoned after agreeing to...
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elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker of the Wars of the Roses), and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess...
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around the time of his accession, including Richard of Devizes, William of Newburgh, Roger of Hoveden and Ralph de Diceto. These historians were generally...
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he was one of four men named bishop in 1189, medieval chronicler Richard of Devizes wrote that the four new bishops were "men of no little virtue and...
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death late in 1189 the widowed Hawise was described by chronicler Richard of Devizes as "a woman who was almost a man, lacking nothing virile except the...
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