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unusual facts about Historia Regum



Domne Eafe

These include a life of Saints Æthelberht and Æthelred in the Historia Regum, compiled at Ramsey Abbey and perhaps to be associated with Byrhtferth, a life of Mildrith by Goscelin written to rebut the claims by St Gregory's Priory at Lyminge to possess the relics of Saints Mildrith and Eadburg, while the claims of St Gregory's are preserved in a manuscript held in Gotha.

John of Hexham

John of Hexham (c. 1160–1209) was an English chronicler, known to us merely as the author of a work called the Historia XXV. annorum, which continues the Historia regum attributed to Symeon of Durham, and contains an account of English events from 1130 to 1153.


see also

Jean Wauquelin

He translated into French, the Chronica ducum Lotharingiae and Brabantiae Edmond de Dynter, the Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Annals historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae of Jacques de Guyse.

Peshmurians revolt

Al-Maqrizi, Historia Regum Islamiticorum in Abyssinia (ed. and Latin trans. F. T. Rink, Leiden, 1790).

Queen Gwendolen

The Historia Regum Britanniae says that at the time of her death Samuel was judge in Judea, Aeneas Silvius was ruling Alba Longa, and Homer was gaining fame in Greece.

Scotland during the Roman Empire

Forsyth, Katherine (2000) "Evidence of a lost Pictish Source in the Historia Regum Anglorum of Symeon of Durham", with an appendix by John T. Koch.