• tradition recounts that Eriugena was stabbed to death by his students at Malmesbury with their pens, although this may rather be allegorical. The form "Eriugena"...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Thulemeyer or Frederick William von Thulemeier was born or baptized on November 9, 1735. He died July 6, 1811, also in Berlin. In...
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    Norse original version of Beowulf must have existed, but in 1914 Carl Wilhelm von Sydow claimed that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and was written...
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    Athelstan Museum Malmesbury. Retrieved 5 October 2024. Three centuries have passed since the shocking death of a young woman in Malmesbury, yet Hannah Twynnoy...
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    the Prince of Wales, Augusta commented to the British negotiator, Lord Malmesbury, that Queen Charlotte disliked both her and her mother because of jealousy...
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    Anglo-Saxon Benedictine monk possibly of noble birth, and educated at Malmesbury Abbey. He left England after the death of his parents and joined Boniface...
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    Commissioner and Resident Magistrate at Oudtshoorn in 1894, and later in Malmesbury and then Stellenbosch. In Stellenbosch he studied after hours at Victoria...
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    mockingly presented. His future return is first mentioned by William of Malmesbury in 1125: "But Arthur's grave is nowhere seen, whence antiquity of fables...
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    Dorothea von Rodde-Schlözer, German scholar (d. 1825) August 27 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (d. 1831) October 10 – Adam Johann von Krusenstern...
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    1066. Edgar is said to have died shortly after 1126, when William of Malmesbury wrote that he "now grows old in the country in privacy and quiet". However...
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