Marie de France

Marie de France

female, 909 years old
Marie de France ("Mary of France") was a poet evidently born in France and living in England during the late 12th century. Virtually nothing is...

Roger The Poitevin

male
Roger the Poitevin was born in Normandy, around the year 1058, and died between 1122 and 1140. He was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat, who possessed...

Anthony St Leger

male, deceased (1786)
Major General Anthony St Leger (1731/32 - 19th April 1786) was a successful soldier, a Member of Parliament for Grimsby, and the founder of the St....
Anglo-Welsh

Anglo-Welsh

The Anglo-Welsh are the English-speaking inhabitants of Wales, either historically, or less commonly, contemporarily. The term can even be used for...
John de Courcy

John de Courcy

male, deceased (1219)
John de Courcy created the earl of Ulster, to which dignity was attached the lordship of Connaught, in 1181. He married Affreca Godfredsdottir,...
Wace

Wace

male, deceased (1183)
Wace (c. 1115 - c. 1183) was an Anglo-Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the "Roman de Rou"...
Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda

female, deceased (1167)
Empress Matilda (February 1101 - September 10, 1167; Saxon form Maud or Maude), also called Matilda, Countess of Anjou or Matilda, Lady of the...
Brother Robert

Brother Robert

Brother Robert was a cleric working in Norway who adapted several French literary works into Old Norse during the reign of Norwegian king Haakon IV...
William I of England

William I of England

male, deceased (1087)
William I of England was a mediæval monarch. He ruled as the Duke of Normandy from 1035 to 1087 and as King of England from 1066 to 1087. William, m...
Robert Of Gloucester

Robert Of Gloucester

male
Robert of Gloucester wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. The "Chronicle"...