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Wimund was a
bishop who
became a
seafaring warlord adventurer in the
years after 1147. His
story is p****ed down to us by 12th-century
English historian...
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William fitz
Wimund was a
Norman landholder in
England after the
Norman Conquest. Fitz
Wimund was from
Avranches in Normandy,
where he held land. In Domesday...
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Pierre Abélard. He was
castrated by
relatives of his lover, Héloïse.
Bishop Wimund, a 12th-century
English adventurer and
invader of the
Scottish coast, was...
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William of Newburgh,
Historia rerum anglicarum, Book 1 Ch. 24, "Of
bishop Wimund, his life
unbecoming a bishop, and how he was
deprived of his sight", Full-text...
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historically been
presumed that had a
large number of ****s,
including Wimund of the Isles, who was
recorded to be the son of the earl of
Moray and for...
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estates to his
three sisters. Of
William Fitz Duncan's
other sons,
Bishop Wimund had
already been blinded,
emasculated and
imprisoned at
Byland Abbey before...
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appears to have been the
shadowy Wimund,
Bishop of the Isles.
According to the twelfth-century
Historia rerum Anglicarum,
Wimund began his
ecclesiastical career...
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Bishop Wimund of the Isles, who
seems to have
regarded the area as his
natural area of authority.
William of
Newburgh records that
Wimund made an attack...
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contained Galloway, a
suggestion thought to
explain the
possible attacks of
Wimund on
Bishop Gilla Aldan of Whithorn. The
ancient cathedral, however, was left...
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ecclesiastical unity to the
careers of Olaf, King of the Isles, and
Bishop Wimund. Previously,
there had been
numerous bishoprics and
recorded bishoprics...
