Richard of Hexham ( fl. 1141) was an

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chronicler A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

. He became prior of

Hexham Hexham ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden, Northumberland, Warden nearby, and ...

about 1141, and died between 1155 and 1167. He wrote ''Brevis Annotatio'', a short history of the church of Hexham from 674 to 1138, for which he borrowed from

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...

Eddius Stephen of Ripon was the author of the eighth-century hagiographic text ''Vita Sancti Wilfrithi'' ("Life of Saint Wilfrid"). Other names once traditionally attributed to him are Eddius Stephanus or Æddi Stephanus, but these names are no longer p ...

and

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. This is published by

James Raine James Raine (1791–1858) was an English antiquarian and topographer. A Church of England clergyman from the 1810s, he held a variety of positions, including librarian to the dean and chapter of Durham and rector of Meldon in Northumberland ...

in ''The Priory of Hexham, its Chroniclers, Endowments and Annals'' (Durham, 1864 to 1865). More important is his ''Historia de gestis regis Stephani ci de bello Standardii'', very valuable for the history of the north of

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during the earlier part of the reign of

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, and especially for the

Battle of the Standard The Battle of the Standard, sometimes called the Battle of Northallerton, took place on 22 August 1138 on Cowton Moor near Northallerton in Yorkshire, England. English forces under William of Aumale repelled a Scottish army led by King David ...

. This history, which is a contemporary one, covers the period from the death of

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in 1135 to early in 1139. It has been edited for the

Rolls Series ''The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages'' ( la, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores), widely known as the is a major collection of British and Irish historical materials and primary sources publish ...

Richard Howlett Richard Howlett was Dean of Cashel from 1639 until 1641: In the Irish Rebellion of 1641 his house and goods were plundered."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton,H. p53 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–18 ...

in the ''Chroniclers of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I'', vol. iii. (1886); and has been translated by

Joseph Stevenson Joseph Stevenson (27 November 1806 – 8 February 1895) was an English Catholic priest, archivist and editor of historical texts. Early life Joseph Stevenson was born on 27 November 1806 in Berwick-on-Tweed, the eldest son of Robert Stevenson, ...

in the ''Church Historians of England'', vol. iv. (1856).

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