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See also:BENEDICTUS ABBAS (d. 1194) , See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of See also:Peterborough, whose name is accidentally connected with the Gesta Henrici Regis Secundi, one of the most valuable of See also:English 12th-See also:century See also:chronicles. He first makes his See also:appearance in 1174, as the See also:chancellor of See also:Archbishop See also:Richard, the successor of See also:Becket in the primacy. In 1175 Benedictus became See also:prior of See also:Holy Trinity, See also:Canterbury; in 1177 he received from See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. the abbacy of Peterborough, which he held until his See also:death. As abbot he distinguished himself by his activity in See also:building, in administering the finances of his See also:house and in See also:collecting a library. He is described in the Chronicon Petroburgense as "blessed both in name and See also:deed." He belonged to the circle of Becket's admirers, and wrote two See also:works dealing with the martyrdom and the miracles of his See also:hero. Fragments of the former See also:work have come down to us in the compilation known as the Quadrilogus, which is printed in the See also:fourth See also:volume of J. C. See also:Robertson's Materials for the See also:History
of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas Becket (Rolls See also:series); the miracles are extant in their entirety, and are printed in the second volume of the same collection. Benedictus has been credited with the authorship of the Gesta Henrici on the ground that his name appears in the See also:title of the See also:oldest See also:manuscript. We have, however, conclusive See also:evidence that Benedictus merely caused this work to be transcribed for the Peterborough library. It is only through the force of See also:custom that the work is still occasionally cited under the name of Benedictus. The question of authorship has been discussed by See also:Sir T. D. See also:Hardy, See also:Bishop See also:Stubbs and See also:Professor See also:Liebermann; but the results of the discussion are negative. Stubbs conjecturally identified the first See also:part of the Gesta (1170—1177) with the See also:Liber Tricolumnis, a See also:register of contemporary events kept by Richard Fitz See also:Neal (q.v.), the treasurer of Henry II. and author of the Dialogus de Scaccario; the latter part (1177–1192) was by the same authority ascribed to See also:Roger of Hoveden, who makes large use of the Gesta in his own See also:chronicle, copying them with few alterations beyond the addition of some documents. This theory-, so far as concerns the Liber Tricolumnis, is rejected by Liebermann and the most See also:recent, editors of the Dialogus (A. See also:Hughes, C. G. Crump and C. See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1902). We can only say that the Gesta are the work of a well-informed See also:con-temporary who appears to have been closely connected with the See also:court and is inclined on all occasions to take the See also:side of Henry II. The author confines himself to the See also:external history of events, and his See also:tone is strictly impersonal. He incorporates some See also:official documents, and in many places obviously derives his See also:information from others which he does not quote. There is a break in his work at the See also:year 1177, where the earliest manuscript ends; but the reasons which have been given to prove that the authorship changes at this point are inconclusive. The work begins at See also:Christmas 1169, and concludes in 1192; it is thus in See also:form a fragment, covering portions of the reign of Henry II. and Richard I.
See W. Stubbs' Gesta regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti abbatis (2 vols., Rolls series, 1867), and particularly the See also:preface to the first volume; F. Liebermann in Einleitung in den Dialogus de Scaccario (See also:Gottingen, 1875) ; in Ostenglische Geschichtsquellen (See also:Hanover, 1892) ; and in See also:Pertz's Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, vol. See also:xxvii. pp. 82, 83; also the introduction to the Dialogus de Scaccario in the Oxford edition of 1902. (H. W. C.
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