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WILLIAM OF POITIERS (c. 1020-C. 1090)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 676 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WILLIAM OF POITIERS (c. 1020-C. 1090) , Norman chronicler, was born at Preaux, near Pont Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family. After serving as a soldier he studied at Poitiers, and then returning to Normandy became chaplain to Duke
William
  (
William
  the Conqueror) and archdeacon of Lisieux. He wrote an eulogistic
life
  of the duke, the earlier and concluding parts of which are lost; and Ordericus Vitalis, who gives a short
biography
  of him in his Historic ecclesiastica, says that he also wrote verses. William's Gesta Guilclmi II. ducis Normannorum, the extant
part
  of which covers the period between 1047 and io68, is valuable for details of the Conqueror's life, although untrustworthy with regard to affairs in England. According to Freeman, " the
work
  is disfigured by his
constant
  spirit of violent partisanship." It was written between 1071 and 1077, and was used by Ordericus Vitalis.
The Gesta was first published by A. Duchesne in the Historiae Normannorum scriptores (Paris, 1619) ; and it is also found in the Scriptores rerum gestarum Willelmi Conquestoris of J. A. Giles (London, 1845). There is a
French
 
translation
  in tome xxix. of Guizot's Collection des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de
France
  (Paris, 1826). See G. Korting, Wilhelms von Poitiers Gesta Guilelmi ducis (Dresden, 1875) ; and A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de
France
 , tome iii. (Paris, 1903).


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