RogerofWendover
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RogerofWendover ( ?-1236) ; afterwardshewasappointedpriorofthecellofBelvoir, butheforfeitedthisdignityintheearlyyearsofHenry Ⅲ, , wherehediedon6May1236.
’sFlowersofHistoryissupposedtohavebeenthecompilationofJohnofWallingford, whowasabbotofSt.Albansfrom1195to1214.
TheworkdonebyJohnstartedfromtheyear1188, andwasrevisedandcontinuedbyRogerupto1235, “fromthebooksofcatholicwritersworthyofcredit, justasflowersofvariouscolorsaregatheredfromvariousfields”.ThatiswhyhecalledhisworkFloresHistoriarum— atitleappropriatedinthe14thcenturytoalongcompilationbyvarioushands.ItwasfinallycompletedatWestminstercontinuingtotheyear1326, , theworkwaslongascribedtoone “MatthewofWestminster”.
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