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HEMINGBURGH, WALTER OF

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 258 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HEG-HIG
HEMINGBURGH, WALTER OF , also commonly, but erroneously, called WALTER HEMINGFORD, Latin chronicler of the 14th century, was a canon regular of the Austin priory of Gisburn in Yorkshire. Hence he is sometimes known as Walter of Gisburn (Walterus Gisburnensis). Bale seems to have been the first to give him the name by which he became more commonly known.
His chronicle embraces the period of English history from the Conquest (Io66) to the nineteenth 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 Crecy (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 MSS. are by him. In compiling the first part, Hemingburgh apparently used the histories of Eadmer, Hoveden,
Henry
  of Huntingdon, and William of Newburgh; but the reigns of the three Edwards are
original
 , composed from personal observation and information. There are several manuscripts of the history extantthe best perhaps being that presented to the College of Arms by the
earl
  of Arundel. The
work
  is correct and judicious, and written in a pleasing style. One of its
special
  features is the preservation in its pages of copies of the
great
  charters, and Hemingburgh's versions have more than once supplied deficiencies and cleared up obscurities in copies from other sources.
The first three books were published by
Thomas
 
Gale
  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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