William Rishanger

{{Short description|English annalist and Benedictine monk}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} '''William Rishanger''' (born 1250), nicknamed "Chronigraphus", was an English annalist and Benedictine monk of St Albans Abbey.{{sfn|Burton|1913}} He probably wrote the ''Opus Chronicorum'', a continuation from 1259 of Matthew Paris's ''Chronicle''. In effect it is a history of his own times from 1259 to 1307, a spirited and trustworthy account, albeit in parts not original.{{sfn|Burton|1913}} He also wrote a history of the reign of Edward I of England, and a work on the Barons' War; and was probably the continuator of ''Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani''.<ref>Antonia Gransden, ''Historical Writing in England II'' (1982), pp. 4–5.</ref>

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==Sources== *{{ODNB |first=James P. |last=Carley |author-link=James Carley |title=Rishanger, William (b. 1249/50, d. after 1312) |id=23669 |year=2004 }} *James Orchard Halliwell (1840), ''The Chronicle of William de Rishanger'', Camden Society *{{CathEncy|wstitle=William Rishanger|first=Edwin|last= Burton }} *{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Rishanger, William}} *{{Nuttall}}

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Category:1250 births

Category:14th-century deaths

Category:Year of death unknown