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See also:BATTLE See also:ABBEY See also:ROLL . This is popularly supposed to have been a See also:list of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William the Conqueror's companions preserved at Battle Abbey, on the site of his See also:great victory over Harold: It is known to us only from 16th See also:century versions of it published by See also:Leland, See also:Holinshed and See also:Duchesne, all more or less imperfect and corrupt. Holinshed's is much the fullest, but of its 629 names several are duplicates. The versions of Leland and Duchesne, though much shorter, each contain many names found in neither of the other lists. It was so obvious that several of the names had no right to figure on the roll, that See also:Camden, as did See also:Dugdale after him, held them to have been interpolated at various times by the monks, "not without their own See also:advantage." See also:Modern writers have gone further, See also:Sir See also:Egerton See also:Brydges denouncing the roll as "a disgusting See also:forgery," and E. A. See also:Freeman dismissing it as " a transparent fiction." An See also:attempt to vindicate the roll was made by the last duchess of See also:Cleveland, whose Battle Abbey Roll (3 vols., 1889) is the best See also:guide to its contents.
It is probable that the See also:character of the roll has been quite misunderstood. It is not a list of individuals, but only of See also:family surnames, and it seems to have been intended to show which families had "come over with the Conqueror," and to have been compiled about the 14th century. The compiler appears to have been influenced by the See also:French See also:sound of names, and to have included many families of later See also:settlement, such as that of See also:Grandson, which did not come to See also:England from See also:Savoy till two centuries after the See also:Conquest. The roll itself appears to be unheard-of before and after the 16th century, but other lists were current at least as See also:early as the 15th century, as the duchess of Cleveland has shown. In 1866 a list of the Conqueror's followers, compiled from Domesday and other See also:authentic records, was set up in Dives See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church by M.
See also:Leopold See also:Delisle, and is printed in the duchess' See also:work. Its contents are naturally sufficient to show that the Battle Roll is worthless.
See Leland, Collectanea; Holinshed, See also:Chronicles of England; Duchesne, Historic Norm. Scriptores; Brydges, Censura Literaria; See also:Thierry, Conquete de l'Angleterre, vol. ii. (1829); See also:Burke, The Roll of Battle Abbey (annotated, 1848) ; See also:Planche, The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); duchess of Cleveland, The Battle Abbey Roll (1889) ; See also:Round, The Companions of the Conqueror " (Monthly See also:Review, 1901, iii. pp. 91-11r). (J. H.
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