Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture The Norman Conquest and the Media
- Dudo of St Quentin and Norman Military Strategy c.1000
- Clergy in the Diocese of Hereford in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- England and the Irish-Sea Zone in the Eleventh Century
- Les abbés bénédictins de la Normandie ducale
- The Vita Ædwardi Regis: The Hagiographer as Insider
- The Warenne View of the Past, 1066–1203
- Textual Communities in the English Fenlands: A Lay Audience for Monastic Chronicles?
- 1088 – William II and the Rebels
- The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered
- Epic and Romance in the Chronicles of Anjou
1088 – William II and the Rebels
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- EDITOR'S PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- R. Allen Brown Memorial Lecture The Norman Conquest and the Media
- Dudo of St Quentin and Norman Military Strategy c.1000
- Clergy in the Diocese of Hereford in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
- England and the Irish-Sea Zone in the Eleventh Century
- Les abbés bénédictins de la Normandie ducale
- The Vita Ædwardi Regis: The Hagiographer as Insider
- The Warenne View of the Past, 1066–1203
- Textual Communities in the English Fenlands: A Lay Audience for Monastic Chronicles?
- 1088 – William II and the Rebels
- The Anglo-Norman Civil War of 1101 Reconsidered
- Epic and Romance in the Chronicles of Anjou
Summary
William Rufus celebrated Christmas for the first time as king at London. No diploma from that occasion has preserved the names of the great men who attended, though Henry of Huntingdon mentions the names of the bishops present. His most probable source may have been a diploma for Bishop Remigius of Lincoln, now lost but accessible to Henry at Lincoln. Last of those named (apart from Remigius himself, who would not have witnessed such a diploma but must be counted as Henry's addition) was Odo, bishop of Bayeux. William Rufus had restored him to his earldom of Kent, and he is addressed as earl in one surviving writ, appointing Wido as abbot of St Augustine's abbey, Canterbury, in the closing months of 1087. A source from Canterbury tells us that Odo was present in Canterbury when Abbot Wido was installed by Archbishop Lanfranc. If the much later writer William Thorne has correctly given the date as 21 December, they may have travelled from there to London together for the king's Christmas court. After his coronation William of Malmesbury tells us that ‘for the rest of the winter’ King William ‘enjoyed peace and popularity’, though none of the national chroniclers mentions that in January or February the king, ‘surrounded by a great multitude of the great men of the palace’, travelled north to York, something that must be gathered from Stephen of Whitby's account of the founding of St Mary's abbey.
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- Anglo-Norman Studies 26Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2003, pp. 139 - 158Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004