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William of Malmesbury c.1090-c.1143
English chronicler and monk
Born probably near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, he became a Benedictine monk in the monastery at Malmesbury, and eventually librarian and precentor. He took part in the council at Winchester against King Stephen in 1141. His Gesta Pontificum is an ecclesiastical history of the bishops and chief monasteries of England to 1123. The Gesta Regum Anglorum provides a lively history of the kings of England from the Saxon invasion to 1126, and the Historia Novella brings down the narrative to 1142. Other works are an account of the church at Glastonbury and Lives of St Dunstan and St Wulfstan.
Bibliography: Rodney M Thomson, William of Malmesbury (1987)
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