Walter of Guisborough
[Walter of Gisburn, Walterus Gisburnensis. Previously known to scholars as Walter of Hemingburgh (]John Bale
John Bale (21 November 1495 – November 1563) was an English churchman, historian and controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English (on the subject of King John), and developed ...
seems to have been the first to call him that).
Sometimes known erroneously as Walter Hemingford, Latin
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chronicler of the 14th century. was a
canon regular
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of the
Augustinian Gisborough Priory
Gisborough Priory is a ruined Augustinian priory in Guisborough in the current borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by the Norman feudal magnate Robert de Brus, also an ances ...
,
Yorkshire
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and
English
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chronicler of the 14th century. His chronicle has historical importance.
''The Chronicle''
''The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough'' (previously edited as the Chronicle of Walter of Hemingford or Hemingburgh),
[ ] embraces the period of English history from
the Conquest (1066) to the 19th year of
Edward III, with the exception of the years 1316–1326. It ends with the title of a chapter in which it was proposed to describe the
Battle of Crécy
The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 in northern France between a French army commanded by King PhilipVI and an English army led by King EdwardIII. The French attacked the English while they were traversing northern France du ...
(1346); but the chronicler seems to have died before the required information reached him. There is, however, some controversy as to whether the later portions, which are lacking in some of the manuscripts, are by him.
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In compiling the first part, he apparently used the histories of ]Eadmer
Eadmer or Edmer ( – ) was an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic. He is known for being a contemporary biographer of his archbishop and companion, Saint Anselm, in his ''Vita Anselmi'', and for his ''Historia novorum in ...
, Roger of Hoveden
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, Henry of Huntingdon
Henry of Huntingdon ( la, Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – AD 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian and the author of ''Historia Anglorum'' (Medieval Latin for "History of the English"), ...
, and William of Newburgh
William of Newburgh or Newbury ( la, Guilelmus Neubrigensis, ''Wilhelmus Neubrigensis'', or ''Willelmus de Novoburgo''. 1136 – 1198), also known as William Parvus, was a 12th-century English historian and Augustinian canon of Anglo-Saxon de ...
; but the reigns of the three Edwards are original, composed from personal observation and information. There are several manuscripts of the history extant, the best perhaps being that presented to the College of Arms
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by the Earl of Arundel
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.
One of the work's features is that it preserves copies of the great charters. Its versions have supplied deficiencies and cleared up obscurities in copies from other sources.[
The first three books were published by ]Thomas Gale
Thomas Gale (1635/1636?7 or 8 April 1702) was an English classical scholar, antiquarian and cleric.
Life
Gale was born at Scruton, Yorkshire. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow ...
in 1687, in his ''Historiae Anglicanae scriptores quinque'', and the remainder by Thomas Hearne in 1731. The first portion was again published in 1848 by the English Historical Society, under the title ''Chronicon Walteri de Hemingburgh, vulgo Hemingford nuncupati, de gestis regum Angliae'', edited by H. C. Hamilton.[
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