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The Tower of London has imprisoned many people over the years… some have attempted to escape. Today we are looking at the story of Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham. I hope you enjoy this video and find it interesting!
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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Panel from the Bayeux Tapestry (12th century) depicting the Bishop Odo of Bayeux, Duke William, and Count Robert of Mortain. Scanned from Lucien Musset's The Bayeux Tapestry ISBN 9781843831631 pp 212-213.
Front cover image for David Roffe’s Domesday: The Inquest and the Book (2000)
Illumination of William Rufus, King William II, from Matthew Paris’ Historia Anglorum, British Library, Royal MS 14 C VII, fols. 8v-156v.
Photograph of the seal of Ranulf Flambard, held in the collection of Durham Cathedral. Reproduced alongside the ODNB entry about Ranulf Flambard by J. F. A. Mason.
Miniature showing Henry I of England enthroned from illuminated Chronicle of Matthew Paris (1236-1259), from BL MS Cotton Claudius D. vi, f.9. Held and digitised by the British Library.
Reconstructed view of the Tower of London, Norman Castle with Roman Walls, c.1100 by Ivan Lapper (2002-2003). © Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London. Photo credit: Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London. From artuk.org/disc...
Photograph of The White Tower at the Tower of London taken by Bernard Gagnon (2007).
Section showing William the Conqueror and his children from a roll chronicle containing the genealogy of the Kings of England from the Heptarchy to Edward I (c 1300-c 1340). Held by the British Library, Royal MS 14 B VI. Screenshot is taken from: www.bl.uk/manus...
Quoted texts:
Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Vol. II; translated by Thomas Forester, pp.466-7.
J. F. A. Mason, ODNB entry on Ranulf Flambard (2004)
Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, Vol. III; translated by Thomas Forester, reproduced at englishlanguag...
R. W. Southern, ‘Ranulf Flambard’, Medieval humanism and other studies (1970), 183-205
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