William of Poitiers, Norman chronicler, was born at Les Préaux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family. After serving as a soldier he studied at Poitiers, and then returning to Normandy became chaplain to Duke William (William the Conqueror) and archdeacon of Lisieux. Orderic Vitalis gives a short biography of him in his "Historia ecclesiastica" and says that he also wrote verses. He wrote an eulogistic life of the duke, … Wikipedia
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