William Of Newburgh

William Of Newburgh

▪ English historian

born 1136, Bridlington, Yorkshire, Eng.
died c. 1198, , Newburgh Priory

      English chronicler who is remembered as the author of one of the most valuable historical works on 11th- and 12th-century England. He entered the Augustinian priory of Newburgh as a boy to study theology and history and apparently remained there the rest of his life, gaining information from travellers and from neighbouring abbeys.

      Written at the request of Ernald, abbot of Rievaux, William's Historia rerum Anglicarum (1196–98; “History of English Affairs”) covers the period from 1066 to 1198. William's erudition included knowledge of the classical writers Virgil, Horace, Cicero, and Livy; the early church historians Eusebius, Gregory, and Augustine; and the English chroniclers Bede, Henry of Huntingdon, Simeon of Durham, and Anselm of Canterbury. The history was primarily a compilation of other English chronicles, except for his original treatment of the period from 1154 to 1173.

      William's dependence on oral tradition and legend resulted in some vagueness and error, but the history is extremely valuable both as a source of English domestic history, at that time overshadowed by news of the Crusades, and for its unusually acute commentary and critical analysis of cause and effect in the anarchic reign of King Stephen (1135–54).

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