Chroniclers Of The Angevins

Question 1

What did William of Newburgh write?

Answer 1

History of England - 1190

‘Father of historial criticism’
‘Loyal but critical and cool’
Used reliable sources

Question 2

What did Herbert of Bosham write?

Answer 2

Life of St Thomas - 1184

Becket’s companion
Less reliable than fitzstephen; not present at the murder of becket

Question 3

What did Roger of Holden write?

Answer 3

Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi
Gesta Regis Ricardis

Loyal royal clerk
Admired henry II and can give inside accounts up to 1201

Question 4

Why is Peter of Blois a good source?

Answer 4

Letters
Letters
Supported Henry II and has records of letters sent to castellan of Dover and archbishop Canterbury
Advocated third crusade.

Question 5

What did Gerald of wales study?

Answer 5

Topography of Ireland

Negotiated with the welsh princes for Henry
Travelled with john to Ireland
Welcomed Louis’ 1216 invasion due to dispute over appointments

Question 6

What did William Fitzstephen write?

Answer 6

Life of St Thomas Beckett 1170

Cleric in beckets household
Stayed with becket in exile
Sherif of Gloucester and itinerant justice

Question 7

What did roger of potigny write?

Answer 7

Life of Thomas Becket

Monk with Beckett in exile
Wrote about process to canonisation and sainthood

Question 8

What did roger of Wendover LA write?

Answer 8

Flowers of History

Monk at St Albans
Clear hostility against john

Question 9

Barnwell Chronicle

Answer 9

Written to john
Balanced account of 1213-16
Saw John as a “great prince” who had bad luck

Question 10

Magna Carta 1215

Answer 10

Legal challenge by novels to the crown
Canterbury monk involved
Legal method to attack monarch

Question 11

Who was the layman John?

Answer 11

History of William Marshall

20,000 lines of verse
Only layman who has a chronicle still existing
Commissioned after Marshall’s death in 1220

Question 12

When did Matthew Paris write his chronicle?

Answer 12

Chronica Majora
Historia Anglorum

Wrote after the Angevins; not a contemporary
Not always reliable

Question 13

Who was Robert of Bath ?

Answer 13

Gesta Stephani

Sympathetic to Stephen during the reign

Question 14

Who was Ranulf Glanvill?

Answer 14

Treatise on Laws and Customs of England

Justiciar until 1189
First hand account on the administration of the country

Question 15

What did Walter Map write ?

Answer 15

De Nugis Curialium (Trifles of Courtiers)

Satirical tales about many things such as fantasy/Henry II

Question 16

Who was Gervase of Canterbury?

Answer 16

Chronicle 1100-99
Gesta Regum until 1210
Recorded archbishops of Canterbury up to 1205

monk in Canterbury

Question 17

What did Jordan Fantosme write?

Answer 17

Chronicle of the 1173 War between England and Scotland

Supported Henry II
Wrote about Great Rebellion
reliable

Question 18

Who’s letters are of particular note since they were leaders of the church?

Answer 18

Becket, Gilbert Foliot, Arnulf of Lisieux

Question 19

What did Rigord write?

Answer 19

Gesta Philippi Augusti

Physician and monk
Key chronicler about France from 1179-1206

Question 20

Richard of Devizes

Answer 20

Chronicon de Rebus gestis Ricardi Primi

Winchester monk recorded first years of Richard’s reign
Religious and antisemitic comments reduce reliability
First to say Jews had holocaust

Question 21

Ralph of Coggeshall

Answer 21

Chronicler in an abbey in Essex
Wrote history in 1218
Praised Henry II, highly critical of john

Question 22

how could innocent III be a source?

Answer 22

Letters

Papacy between 1998 and 1216
Crucial for the interdict and first barons war especially

Question 23

Ralph of Diceto

Answer 23

Ymagines Historiarium up to 1202.
Dean in London
Close contact with many senior politicians such as richard FitzNigel

Question 24

Edward Grim

Answer 24

Vita Saint Thomae

Eyewitness of the Beckett murder
Only met Beckett at the end of his life
Things like Henry’s penance etc are all second hand information