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Names were engraved in 1862 under the auspices of the French Archaeological Society, on the wall of the nave of the Norman church (11th century) of Dives-sur-Mer. Four hundred seventy-five names are listed, based mainly on names contained in the Domesday Book. The names are therefore merely those of Normans holding land in England in 1086, many ...
He was a Gascon Knight, vassal of Albret and a supporter of the English, he served as admiral of Bayonne fleet and captain of the coast Richard Stapledon ~1260–1326 Devon A knight, judge, and elder brother of Walter de Stapledon. In 1326 he died a valiant death trying to save his brother from an angry mob of Londoners. Walter de Stapledon
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Ubiquitous Knight of the Round Table; various stories and origins are given for him Segurant: Sigurant, Seguarant, Sigurant Segurant, the Knight of the Dragon, late 13th century. Prophecies of Merlin: Knight of the Isle of Not-Knowing, son of Hector the Brown, Dragon slayer, Segwarides† Le Morte d'Arthur, Prose Tristan
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A three-volume work by Wilhelmina, Duchess of Cleveland (1819–1901), published in 1889, entitled The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages attempts to vindicate the existence of an original roll and consists of short histories and discussions concerning the origins of several hundred English families of Norman origin, based the names supposedly contained in the Battle ...
The Queen and the Page, by Marianne Stokes, 1896. In medieval times, a page was an attendant to a nobleman, a knight, a governor or a castellan. [1] Until the age of about seven, sons of noble families would receive training in manners and basic literacy from their mothers or other female relatives.
Anchetil de Greye (c. 1046 – after 1086) was a Norman chevalier and vassal of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford, one of the great magnates of early Norman England, and one of the very few proven companions of William the Conqueror known to have fought at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.