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On 10th September 1501 Louis Amboise Bishop Albi [aged 22] resigned as Bishop Albi.
On 1st July 1503 Louis Amboise Bishop Albi [aged 24] was elected Bishop Albi.
In 1058 Bishop Guy of Ponthieu was appointed Bishop Amiens.
Guy Montdidier Bishop Amiens was appointed Bishop Amiens.
Robert Burgundy Bishop Autun was appointed Bishop Autun.
Henry Burgundy Bishop Autun was appointed Bishop Autun.
Manasses Normandy Bishop Cambrai Bishop Soissons was appointed Bishop Cambrai.
William Avesnes Bishop Cambrai was appointed Bishop Cambrai.
André Luxembourg Bishop Cambrai was appointed Bishop Cambrai.
Peter Metz Bishop Cambrai was appointed Bishop Cambrai.
In 1176 Bishop John of Salisbury [aged 58] was appointed Bishop Chartres.
In 1182 Reginald of Bar Bishop Chartres was appointed Bishop Chartres.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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In 1190 Rotrou du Perche Chateaudun Bishop Châlons sur Marne was appointed Bishop Châlons sur Marne.
Philip Blois Bishop Châlons sur Marne was appointed Bishop Châlons sur Marne.
William Chateaudun Bishop Châlons sur Marne was appointed Bishop Châlons sur Marne.
Amanieu Albret Bishop Pamiers Bishop Comminges Bishop Lescar was appointed Bishop Comminges.
Benoît Canhiart Bishop Cornouaille was appointed Bishop Cornouaille.
Orscand Canhiart Bishop Cornouaille was appointed Bishop Cornouaille.
Archbishop Rotrou was appointed Bishop Evreux.
Gilbert Arques Bishop Evreux was appointed Bishop Evreux.
Robert Burgundy Bishop Langres was appointed Bishop Langres.
In 997 Avesgaud Chateau Du Loir Bishop Le Mans was appointed Bishop Le Mans.
In 1036 Gervais Chateau Du Loir Archbishop of Reims [aged 29] was appointed Bishop Le Mans.
Amanieu Albret Bishop Pamiers Bishop Comminges Bishop Lescar was appointed Bishop Lescar.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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In 1049 Hugues Normandy Bishop Lisieux was appointed Bishop Lisieux.
In 1081 Benoît Canhiart Bishop Nantes was appointed Bishop Nantes.
Guérech Canhiart Bishop Nantes was appointed Bishop Nantes.
Peirre Chalot Capet Bishop Noyen was appointed Bishop Noyen.
Liudolfe Vermandois Bishop Noyen Bishop Tournai was appointed Bishop Noyen.
In 1297 Frederick Metz Bishop Orléans was appointed Bishop Orléans.
Amanieu Albret Bishop Pamiers Bishop Comminges Bishop Lescar was appointed Bishop Pamiers.
Manasses Normandy Bishop Cambrai Bishop Soissons was appointed Bishop Soissons.
Guy Ingelger Bishop Soissons was appointed Bishop Soissons.
In 1365 John Luxembourg Archbishop of Mainz was appointed Bishop Strasbourg.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough
A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'
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Charles Lorraine Bishop Metz Bishop Strasbourg was appointed Bishop Strasbourg.
Saint Louis Capet Bishop Toulouse was appointed Bishop Toulouse.
Matthias Metz Bishop Toulouse was appointed Bishop Toulouse.
Before 1517 Bishop Richard Sampson was appointed diocesan chancellor and vicar-general of the Bishop Tournai by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey [aged 43].
Liudolfe Vermandois Bishop Noyen Bishop Tournai was appointed Bishop Tournai.
In 1224 Bishop William of Savoy was elected Bishop Valence.
In 1241 Archbishop Philip of Savoy [aged 34] was elected Bishop Valence.
In 984 Adalberon Ardennes Bishop Verdun was appointed Bishop Verdun.
Adalbero Ardennes Bishop Metz Bishop Verdun was appointed Bishop Verdun.
Cardinal Louis of Bar was appointed Bishop Verdun.
Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes
Récits d’un bourgeois de Valenciennes aka The Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes is a vivid 14th-century vernacular chronicle written by an anonymous urban chronicler from Valenciennes in the County of Hainaut. It survives in a manuscript that describes local and regional history from about 1253 to 1366, blending chronology, narrative episodes, and eyewitness-style accounts of political, military, and social events in medieval France, Flanders, and the Low Countries. The work begins with a chronological framework of events affecting Valenciennes and its region under rulers such as King Philip VI of France and the shifting allegiances of local nobility. It includes accounts of conflicts, sieges, diplomatic manoeuvres, and the impact of broader struggles like the Hundred Years’ War on urban life in Hainaut. Written from the perspective of a burgher (bourgeois) rather than a monastery or royal court, the chronicle offers a rare lay viewpoint on high politics and warfare, reflecting how merchants, townspeople, and civic institutions experienced the turbulence of the 13th and 14th centuries. Its narrative style combines straightforward reporting of events with moral and civic observations, making it a valuable source for readers interested in medieval urban society, regional politics, and the lived experience of war and governance in pre-modern Europe.
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In 1011 Bishop Hugh of Ivry [aged 23] was appointed Bishop of Bayeux.
Bishop Odo of Bayeux was appointed Bishop of Bayeux.
Bishop Richard Fitzrobert was appointed Bishop of Bayeux.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. If any person wishes to know what kind of man he was, or what honour he had, or of how many lands he was lord, then will we write about him as well as we understand him: we who often looked upon him, and lived sometime in his court. This King William then that we speak about was a very wise man, and very rich; more splendid and powerful than any of his predecessors were. He was mild to the good men that loved God, and beyond all measure severe to the men that gainsayed his will. On that same spot where God granted him that he should gain England, he reared a mighty minster, and set monks therein, and well endowed it. In his days was the great monastery in Canterbury built, and also very many others over all England. This land was moreover well filled with monks, who modelled their lives after the rule of St. Benedict. But such was the state of Christianity in his time, that each man followed what belonged to his profession-he that would. He was also very dignified. Thrice he bare his crown each year, as oft as he was in England. At Easter he bare it in Winchester, at Pentecost in Westminster, at midwinter in Glocester. And then were with him all the rich men over all England; archbishops and diocesan bishops, abbots and earls, thanes and knights. So very stern was he also and hot, that no man durst do anything against his will. He had earls in his custody, who acted against his will. Bishops he hurled from their bishoprics, and abbots from their abbacies, and thanes into prison. At length he spared not his own brother Odo, who was a very rich bishop in Normandy. At Baieux was his episcopal stall; and he was the foremost man of all to aggrandise the king. He had an earldom in England; and when the king was in Normandy, then was he the mightiest man in this land. Him he confined in prison. But amongst other things is not to be forgotten that good peace that he made in this land; so that a man of any account might go over his kingdom unhurt with his bosom full of gold. No man durst slay another, had he never so much evil done to the other; and if any churl lay with a woman against her will, he soon lost the limb that he played with. He truly reigned over England; and by his capacity so thoroughly surveyed it, that there was not a hide of land in England that he wist not who had it, or what it was worth, and afterwards set it down in his book.110 The land of the Britons was in his power; and he wrought castles therein; and ruled Anglesey withal. So also he subdued Scotland by his great strength. As to Normandy, that was his native land; but he reigned also over the earldom called Maine; and if he might have yet lived two years more, he would have won Ireland by his valour, and without any weapons. Assuredly in his time had men much distress, and very many sorrows. Castles he let men build, and miserably swink the poor. The king himself was so very rigid; and extorted from his subjects many marks of gold, and many hundred pounds of silver; which he took of his people, for little need, by right and by unright. He was fallen into covetousness, and greediness he loved withal. He made many deer-parks; and he established laws therewith; so that whosoever slew a hart, or a hind, should be deprived of his eyesight. As he forbade men to kill the harts, so also the boars; and he loved the tall deer as if he were their father. Likewise he decreed by the hares, that they should go free. His rich men bemoaned it, and the poor men shuddered at it. But he was so stern, that he recked not the hatred of them all; for they must follow withal the king's will, if they would live, or have land, or possessions, or even his peace. Alas! that any man should presume so to puff himself up, and boast o'er all men. May the Almighty God show mercy to his soul, and grant him forgiveness of his sins! These things have we written concerning him, both good and evil; that men may choose the good after their goodness, and flee from the evil withal, and go in the way that leadeth us to the kingdom of heaven. Many things may we write that were done in this same year. So it was in Denmark, that the Danes, a nation that was formerly accounted the truest of all, were turned aside to the greatest untruth, and to the greatest treachery that ever could be. They chose and bowed to King Cnute, and swore him oaths, and afterwards dastardly slew him in a church. It happened also in Spain, that the heathens went and made inroads upon the Christians, and reduced much of the country to their dominion. But the king of the Christians, Alphonzo by name, sent everywhere into each land, and desired assistance. And they came to his support from every land that was Christian; and they went and slew or drove away all the heathen folk, and won their land again, through God's assistance.
In 1149 Henry Capet Archbishop of Reims [aged 28] was appointed Bishop of Beauvais.
In 1175 Philippe of Dreux [aged 17] was appointed Bishop of Beauvais.
In 1191 Albert of Louvain Bishop Liege [aged 25] was elected Bishop of Liège.
In 1302 Theobald of Bar Bishop Metz Bishop of Liège was appointed Bishop of Liège.
In 1313 Bishop Adolf de la Marck [aged 24] was appointed Bishop of Liège.
In 1389 John "Pitiless" Wittelsbach II Duke Bavaria Straubing [aged 14] was appointed Bishop of Liège.
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 2 Chapters 61-109 1342-1361
The Chronicle of Jean le Bel, Volume 2 continues one of the most important fourteenth-century accounts of the early Hundred Years’ War. Written by the Liège chronicler Jean le Bel, this vivid narrative follows the fortunes of Edward III, Jean II of France, the Black Prince, the great nobles of France and England, and the soldiers, captains and companies who shaped the conflict. This volume covers some of the most dramatic events of the period, including the battles of Crécy and Poitiers, the siege and capture of Calais, the captivity of King John, the rise of the Jacquerie, the turmoil in Paris under Étienne Marcel and Charles of Navarre, the devastation caused by the free companies, Edward III’s great campaign of 1359–1360, and the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Brétigny. Jean le Bel’s chronicle is especially valuable for its lively detail, its interest in chivalry, warfare, politics and reputation, and its influence on later chroniclers, most famously Froissart. This English translation presents the text in clear, readable British English while preserving the force and character of the original narrative. The translation includes extensive notes to help the reader better understand Jean le Bel's text. Volume 2 also includes translated appendices drawn from royal and administrative records, many from the English Record Office, which illuminate Edward III’s campaigns in Brittany, the siege and occupation of Calais, naval preparations, military finance, appointments, safe conducts and related affairs.
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In 1389 Dietrich de la Marck Bishop of Liège was appointed Bishop of Liège.
John Dampierre Bishop Metz Bishop of Liège was appointed Bishop of Liège.
Frederick Namur Bishop of Liège was appointed Bishop of Liège.
William Savoy Bishop of Liège was appointed Bishop of Liège.
In 660 Bishop Egelbert [aged 35] was appointed Bishop of Paris.
Bishop Godfrey Flanders was appointed Bishop of Paris.
Bishop Guillaume Montfort was appointed Bishop of Paris.