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Godric Kean
Godric may refer to: People *Godric of Finchale (c. 1060–1170), Anglo-Saxon saint *'' Godric'', a novel by Frederick Buechner about Godric of Finchdale * Godric of Mappestone (fl. 1086), Anglo-Saxon thane and landowner mentioned in the Domesday Book *Godric the Sheriff (died 1066), 11th-century sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire * Godric the Steward (died c. 1114) steward of Ralph de Gael * Godric of Winchcombe, a medieval abbot of Winchcombe Abbey Fiction * Godric, known as Godfrey, a character in the ''Southern Vampire Mysteries'' novels by Charlaine Harris ** Godric (''True Blood''), a fictional character in the television series ''True Blood'' adapted from the ''Southern Vampire Mysteries'' novels * ''Godric'' (novel), a 1981 Pulitzer-nominated book by Frederick Buechner about Godric of Finchale * Godric Gryffindor, a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' universe * Godric's Hollow, a fictional place in the ''Harry Potter'' universe * '' Godric the Golden'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric Of Finchale
Godric of Finchale (or St Goderic) ( – 21 May 1170) was an English hermit, merchant and popular medieval saint, although he was never formally canonised. He was born in Walpole in Norfolk and died in Finchale in County Durham. Life Godric's life was recorded by a contemporary of his, a monk named Reginald of Durham. Several other hagiographies are also extant. According to these accounts, Godric, who began from humble beginnings as the son of Ailward and Edwenna, "both of slender rank and wealth, but abundant in righteousness and virtue". He began as a peddler and became an entrepreneur. " was wont to wander with small wares around the villages and farmsteads of his own neighborhood; but, in process of time, he gradually associated himself by compact with city merchants." Then he was a ship's captain and part owner of two ships, one of which may have conveyed Baldwin I of Jerusalem to Jaffa in 1102. After many pilgrimages around the Mediterranean, Godric found himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric (novel)
''Godric'' is the tenth novel by the American author and theologian, Frederick Buechner. Set in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the novel tells the semi-fictionalised life story of the medieval Roman Catholic saint, Godric of Finchale. It was first published in 1980 by Atheneum, New York, and was a finalist for the 1981 Pulitzer Prize. Plot summary Godric of Finchale is joined at his hermitage on the banks of the River Wear by Reginald, a monk sent by the abbot of Rievaulx Abbey with instructions to record the aging saint’s biography. The arrival of the enthusiastic young monk plunges Godric back into his past, and he unflinchingly narrates the ribald tale of his own history, which is carefully edited by Reginald and set down in restrained and laudatory prose more befitting of the life of a saint. Having survived a near drowning in the sea at a young age, Godric leaves home for a life of petty crime – selling counterfeit relics and the ostensibly holy hair of nuns. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Buechner
Carl Frederick Buechner ( ; July 11, 1926 – August 15, 2022) was an American author, Presbyterianism, Presbyterian Minister (Christianity), minister, preacher, and theologian. The author of thirty-nine published books, his work encompassed different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career spanned more than six decades. He was best known for his novels, including ''A Long Day's Dying'', ''The Book of Bebb'', ''Godric (novel), Godric'' (1981 Pulitzer Prize finalist), and ''Brendan (novel), Brendan'', his memoirs, including The Sacred Journey, ''The Sacred Journey'' and ''Telling Secrets (memoir), Telling Secrets,'' and his theological works, such as ''Secrets in the Dark: a life in sermons, Secrets in the Dark'', ''The Magnificent Defeat'', and ''Telling the Truth: the Gospel as tragedy, comedy, and fairy tale, Telling the Truth''. Buechner was named "without question one of the truly great writers of the 20th century" by viaLibri, a "major ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric Of Mappestone
Godric of Mappestone was an Anglo-Saxon ''thane'' and landowner mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as a tenant of Howel in modern Herefordshire. Godric is best known for the construction of the first timber version of Goodrich Castle, probably during the late 1080s, when it was originally known as ''Castellum Godrici'', or "the castle of Godric", which gave the village of Goodrich its name. Victorian historians, however, believed the castle to date back further to the pre-Norman conquest days of King Canute, and the site may have been among a small number of Saxon fortifications along the Welsh border.Wright, p.85. Bibliography * Brayley, Edward William and William Tombleson William Tombleson (1795 - c. 1846) was an English topographical and architecture artist, illustrator, copper and steel engraver, writer and printmaker, based in London. William Tombleson (German Wikipedia). Life and works In the 1830s, his top .... (1823) ''A Series of Views of the Most Interesting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric The Sheriff
Godric (died c. 1066) was the Anglo Saxon sheriff of Berkshire and possibly Buckinghamshire in the 11th century prior to the Norman Conquest. The High Sheriff of Berkshire's chief residences were at Wallingford and Aldermaston. As a sheriff, Godric had the powers of arrest, he could raise armies, collect taxes and levies, and he presided over courts, dealt with traitors and generally supervised on the King's behalf everything that went on in the area of the Kingdom under his jurisdiction. It was recorded that Godric was "a colourful old scoundrel". Godric had at least one daughter, who was taught gold embroidery by a maid called Aelfgyth in Oakley, Buckinghamshire before the Norman Conquest. Henry de Ferrers had acquired lands at Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) belonging to Godric the Sheriff, probably between 1055 and 1067. Finally, there is a mention of "Godric the Sheriff, of Fyfield ( Berkshire, now Oxfordshire)" as being a member of King Harold G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric The Steward
Godric or Godric the Steward or Godric dapifer (died 1114) was an Englishman around the time of the Norman Conquest. Godric was a native Englishman who was the dapifer, or steward, of the Earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Gael. Godric may have been a relative of the earl's.Keats-Rohan ''Domesday People'' pp. 219–221 Godric is listed in Domesday Book as administering some royal lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, some of which were lands formerly held by Ralph before the earl's participation in the Revolt of the Earls and subsequent loss of all his English landholdings.Huscroft ''Ruling England'' pp. 61–62 Godric is also listed in Domesday Book as holding lands in his own right.Green ''Aristocracy'' pp. 96–97 Godric was one of only 13 tenants-in-chief who were English listed in Domesday Book.Huscroft ''Norman Conquest'' pp. 240-241 Godric served King William II of England as a steward also.Barlow ''William Rufus'' p. 140 The historian Frank Barlow states that he held the office of Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric Of Winchcombe
Godric may refer to: People *Godric of Finchale (c. 1060–1170), Anglo-Saxon saint *''Godric (novel), Godric'', a novel by Frederick Buechner about Godric of Finchdale *Godric of Mappestone (fl. 1086), Anglo-Saxon thane and landowner mentioned in the Domesday Book *Godric the Sheriff (died 1066), 11th-century sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire *Godric the Steward (died c. 1114) steward of Ralph de Gael *Godric of Winchcombe, a medieval abbot of Winchcombe Abbey Fiction * Godric, known as Godfrey, a List of The Southern Vampire Mysteries characters#Godfrey, character in the ''Southern Vampire Mysteries'' novels by Charlaine Harris ** Godric (True Blood), Godric (''True Blood''), a fictional character in the television series ''True Blood'' adapted from the ''Southern Vampire Mysteries'' novels * Godric (novel), ''Godric'' (novel), a 1981 Pulitzer-nominated book by Frederick Buechner about Godric of Finchale * Godric Gryffindor, a fictional character in the ''Harry Potter'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winchcombe Abbey
Winchcombe Abbey is a now-vanished Benedictine abbey in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire; this abbey was once in the heart of Mercia, an Anglo Saxon kingdom at the time of the Heptarchy in England. The Abbey was founded c. 798 for three hundred Benedictine monks, by King Offa of Mercia or King Coenwulf of Mercia. In its time, it was the burial place of two members of the Mercian ruling class, the aforementioned Coenwulf and his son Cynehelm, later venerated as Saint Kenelm.''Victoria County History, Gloucestershire'', ii, 66-72 According to more recent research, the original foundation by Offa in 787 was for a community of nuns, to which Coenwulf added a community of men in 811 to create a double monastery. The nunnery ceased to exist sometime after 897. The abbey was refounded in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Southern Vampire Mysteries Characters
This is a listing of significant characters in Charlaine Harris's ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' / Sookie Stackhouse novels only. HBO created a television series called ''True Blood'' based on the novels. Main characters Sookie Stackhouse Sookie is the main character of ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', and resides in the fictional town of Bon Temps in rural northern Louisiana. In the first novel, ''Dead Until Dark'', she describes herself as being 25 years old, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She also states that her "legs are strong and erbosom is substantial... itha waspy waistline”. She is written to wear a ladies size 8-10. Sookie, although not highly educated, is well read and has an extensive vocabulary. This is primarily attributed to her affinity for her “word-of-the-day” calendar. Although Sookie appears to be human, she possesses telepathic abilities, which manifested at a very young age. Later she learns she is a fairy-human hybrid. She is able to read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric (True Blood)
''True Blood'' is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' by Charlaine Harris. This article includes main characters (i.e. characters played by a main cast member), as well as every recurring vampire, and every other character to appear in at least four episodes. http://tviv.org/True_Blood/Characters TVIV.com—True Blood characters Main characters Humans Supernaturals Seasonal antagonists Past main characters Additional characters Supporting vampire characters Additional characters, introduced in season 1 Additional characters, introduced in season 2 Additional characters, introduced in season 3 Additional characters, introduced in season 4 Additional characters, introduced in season 5 See also * List of ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' characters References External links ''True Blood''Official site * {{DEFAULTSORT:True Blood characters True Bloo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godric Gryffindor
The following fictional characters are staff members and denizens of Hogwarts in the ''Harry Potter'' books written by J. K. Rowling. The staff and their positions Teachers and staff members The following teachers and staff members do not have their own articles or are not listed in other articles. Argus Filch Argus Filch is the caretaker of Hogwarts. While he is not an evil character, he is ill-tempered, which makes him unpopular with the student body, and occasionally causes tension or exasperation with teachers and other staff. His knowledge of the secrets and short-cuts of the castle is almost unparalleled, except perhaps by the users of the Marauder's Map (the Weasley twins, Harry Potter (character), Harry, Ron Weasley, Ron and Hermione Granger, Hermione), and Voldemort himself. He tends to favour almost sadistically harsh punishments, and gleefully allies himself with Umbridge when she prescribes such punishments on students. He has an obsessive dislike of mud, animat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
