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Osbern Fitz Hugh
Osbern is a given name. Variants include Osbearn and Osbarn. Notable people with the name include: * Osbeorn Bulax (died 1054), son of Siward of Northumbria *Osbern the Steward Osbern de Crépon (died c. 1040), steward and seneschal of two Norman dukes * Osbern Pentecost (d.1054) pre conquest Norman knight in England and Scotland *Osbern FitzOsbern a.k.a. Osbern of Exeter (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter, Osbern the Steward's son and William FitzOsbern's brother *Osbern of Canterbury (died 1090), English Benedictine monk * Osbern of Westminster a.k.a. Osbert of Clare (died c. 1158), English Benedictine monk, abbot and author * Osbern of Gloucester (died 1200), English Benedictine monk and hagiographer *Osbern Bokenam (died c. 1447), English poet *Osbern FitzRichard, Anglo-Norman baron, Richard FitzScrope's son * Osbern FitzHugh, descendant of Richard FitzScrope's family See also * Osborn (surname) * Osborne (name) * Osbourne (other) Osbourne may refer to: * Osbourne (na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbeorn Bulax
Osbeorn, also spelled Osbjorn and Osbert (died c. 1054), given the nickname Bulax, was the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria (died 1055). He is one of two known sons of Siward, believed to be the older.Aird, "Siward" While it is normally assumed he was the son of Siward's Bamburgh wife Ælfflæd, it has been suggested by William Kapelle that Osbeorn's mother was not Ælfflæd. The nickname "Bulax" probably represents the Old Norse term for "Poleaxe". According to the most reliable sources, he died at the Battle of the Seven Sleepers, fought somewhere in Scotland between Siward and Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, King of the Scots, in 1054. Under this year, the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', recension D, related that: "At this time earl Siward went with a great army into Scotland, with both fleet and a land-force; and fought against the Scots, and put to flight the king Mac Bethad, and slew all that were best in the land, and brought thence much war-spoil, such as no man obtained before;& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbern The Steward
Osbern the Steward, known in French as ''Osbern de Crépon'' († about 1040), was the Steward of two Dukes of Normandy and the father of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of William the Conqueror's closest counsellors. Biography Osbern was the son of Herfast de Crepon and the nephew of Gunnor, Duchess of Normandy,David C. Douglas, ''William the Conqueror'', University of California Press, 1964, réédition 1992, p90, 145.C. P. Lewis, « William fitz Osbern, earl (d. 1071) », ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. initially mistress and then second wife of Richard I of Normandy. Under Robert the Magnificent (1027–1035), he had the role of Steward or Seneschal.David C. Douglas, ''op. cit.'', p35. He kept this role after the Duke's death in 1035. He became one of the legal protectors of the young successor to the duchy, William the Bastard, known later as William the Conqueror, then aged 8.David C. Douglas, ''op. cit.'', p37. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crépon
Crépon () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area .... Population Architecture Historic architecture : * Parish church, Saint-Médard-et-Saint-Gildard, 12th-14th century * Ferme de la Rançonnière (13th ‑ 15th) ; * Manoir de Verdin (18th) ; * Manoir du Clos de Mondeville (16th ‑ X19th) ; * Manoir du Clos de Lhérondelle (17th) ; * Manoir de la Grande Ferme (X17th) ; * Manoir de Mathan (1st half of 17th - 1st half of 18th) * Ferme du Colombier (18th - 1st quarter 19th) ; * Manoir de la Baronnie et Ferme de la Baronnie (16th ‑ 19th) ; * Ferme des Fontaines (1st half 18th). See also * Communes of the Calvados department References External links Ferme de la Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbern Pentecost
Sir Osbern Pentecost (died 1054) was a Norman knight who followed Edward the Confessor to England upon Edward's return from exile in Normandy in 1041. He was one of the few Norman landholders in England prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Under the patronage of Ralph the Timid, Earl of Hereford, Osbern built the castle at Ewyas in Herefordshire, one of the first Motte and Bailey types to be constructed in England. On the return from exile in 1052 of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, the Normans were banished from England. Osbern obtained a safe passage from Leofric of Mercia and ventured north to join the court of Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, King of Scots. During Earl Siward's invasion of Scotland in 1054, Osbern Pentecost was one of the Normans killed at the Battle of Dunsinane The Battle of Dunsinane, also known as the Battle of the Seven Sleepers, was fought between the forces of Macbeth, King of Scotland and forces led by Siward, Earl of Northumbria and Malcolm Canmore o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbern FitzOsbern
__NOTOC__ Osbern FitzOsbern (–1103) was a Norman churchman. He was a relative of King Edward the Confessor as well as being a royal chaplain.Barlow ''Edward the Confessor'' p. 164 During Edward's reign he received the church at Bosham, near Chichester. He was one of those present at the consecration of Westminster Abbey at Christmas 1065.Kinsford "Osbern" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' He was a steward for King William I of England during his reign, as well as being a friend of the king.Barlow ''William Rufus'' pp. 178–179 The story that he became William's chancellor is based entirely on a charter that modern historians have declared mostly spurious. He became Bishop of Exeter in 1072, and was consecrated at St. Paul's in London on 27 May 1072 by the Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exeter
Exeter () is a city in Devon, South West England. It is situated on the River Exe, approximately northeast of Plymouth and southwest of Bristol. In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal command of Vespasian. Exeter became a religious centre in the Middle Ages. Exeter Cathedral, founded in the mid 11th century, became Anglican in the 16th-century English Reformation. Exeter became an affluent centre for the wool trade, although by the First World War the city was in decline. After the Second World War, much of the city centre was rebuilt and is now a centre for education, business and tourism in Devon and Cornwall. It is home to two of the constituent campuses of the University of Exeter: Streatham and St Luke's. The administrative area of Exeter has the status of a non-metropolitan district under the administration of the County Council. It is the county town of Devon and home to the headquarters of Devon County Council. A p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William FitzOsbern
William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, Lord of Breteuil ( 1011 – 22 February 1071), was a relative and close counsellor of William the Conqueror and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. FitzOsbern was created Earl of Hereford in 1067, one of the first peerage titles in the English peerage. He is one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. His chief residence was Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight, one of many castles he built in England. Origins William FitzOsbern was the son of Osbern the Steward, a nephew of Duchess Gunnor, the wife of Duke Richard I of Normandy. Osbern was the steward of his cousin Duke Robert I of Normandy. When Robert left the Duchy to his young son William, Osbern became one of Duke William's guardians. Osbern married Emma, a daughter of Count Rodulf of Ivry, who was a half-brother of Duke Richard I of Normandy. Through her he inherited a large property in ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbern Of Canterbury
Osbern ( 1050 – c. 1095) was a Benedictine monk, hagiographer and musician, precentor of Christ Church, Canterbury. He is sometimes confused with Osbert de Clare, alias Osbern de Westminster. He is known as "the monk Osbern" or just "Monk Osbern". Biography He was born at Canterbury and brought up by Godric, who was dean from 1058–1080. He became a monk, and later precentor of Christ Church, and was ordained by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury (d. 1089). He died probably between 1088 and 1093. He was acquaintances, and probably close friends, with Eadmer of Canterbury, a fellow monk and historian of Canterbury a few years his junior. Eadmer related a story in which the two, in the late 1080s, searched for the relics of Saint Audoen in the crypts of Christ Church, Canterbury. Upon finding the relics, they were delighted, but the same night, were haunted by 'dreadful apparitions'. Eadmer was greatly influenced by the writing style and memories of Osbern, who could better recal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbert Of Clare
Osbert of Clare (died in or after 1158) was a monk, elected prior of Westminster Abbey and briefly abbot. He was a prolific writer of letters, a hagiographer and a forger of charters. Life Osbert was born towards the end of the eleventh century at Clare, Suffolk. He became a Benedictine monk at a priory located in Clare Castle. In 1090 Gilbert Fitz Richard gave the church in the castle to the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec in Normandy, making it an alien priory and a dependency of Bec. In 1124 Gilbert's son, Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, moved the Benedictines to a new foundation about two miles west of Clare in Stoke-by-Clare. Under the patronage of the powerful de Clare family, it was one of the wealthiest monastic houses in Norman England. Osbert was elected prior of St Peter's Abbey, Westminster. In the 1130s, he wrote liturgical texts for the feast of Saint Anne for Worcester Cathedral. During a vacancy of the See of London, Osbert undertook to introduce at Westminster, the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbern Of Gloucester
Osbern Pinnock of Gloucester (1123–1200) was an English Benedictine monk of St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, and a lexicographical writer. His ''Panormia'', or ''Derivationes'' (''Liber Derivationum''), was a Latin word list compiled from about 1150 to 1180. It contained elements of both the glossary of rarer words, and derivations (based on etymology) and so was innovative; but at this stage the two aspects were kept separate. This work was printed by Angelo Mai in 1836 as ''Thesaurus novus latinitatis''; its authorship is a later attribution of Wilhelm Meyer. It was widely circulated, and influenced later work of Huguccio Huguccio (Hugh of Pisa, Uguccio) (c. 1140- died 1210) was an Italian canon lawyer. Biography Huguccio studied at Bologna, probably under Gandolphus, and taught canon law in the same city, perhaps in the school connected with the monastery of S .... References Further reading * * * {{Authority control English Benedictines English lexicographers 112 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osbern Bokenam
Osbern Bokenam (c. 1393 – c. 1464, also spelt Bokenham) was an English Augustinian (Austin) friar and poet. He was a follower of Geoffrey Chaucer. Life Osbern Bokenam was born, according to his own account, on 6 October 1393. His name suggests he may have been a native of Bokeham, now Bookham, in Surrey, or of Buckenham in Norfolk. In a concluding note to his ''Lives of the Saints'', Bokenam is described as a "Suffolke man, frere Austyn of Stoke Clare" (friar at Clare Priory in Suffolk).Macpherson, Ewan. "Osbern Bokenham." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. Retrieved 28 March 2013 Bokenam travelled in |
Osbern FitzRichard
Osbern fitzRichard (sometimes Osbern fitz Richard Scrob;Baxter ''Earls of Mercia'' p. 122 died after 1088) was a Frenchman, perhaps Norman, who was a landowner and tenant-in-chief in England. Osbern served as a royal judge and sided with the baronial rebels at the start of King William II's reign, although he later returned to the king's service. Background Osbern was the son of Richard Scrob, who arrived in England before the Norman Conquest of England.Sanders ''English Baronies'' p. 75 Richard's origins are not known for certain, except that he from France, and may have been a Norman. Richard was the builder of Richard's Castle in Herefordshire, one of the few castles in England that predates the Norman Conquest.Lewis "Osbern fitz Richard" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Career Osbern held Richard's Castle at the time of Domesday Book in 1086. His holding of Richard's Castle as a tenant-in-chief is considered to have made him a feudal baron. Domesday Book records ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
