Matthew of Paris

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1. c1200–59, English chronicler.

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Thus Matthew of Paris, in recording the burial of Henry II. in 1189, mentions that he was buried in his coronation robes, with a golden crown on his head and gloves on his hands.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various

Matthew of Paris, the historian, says, that many of those unfortunate men were among the first of the Poitevin nobility.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 484, April 9, 1831 by Various

At this time lived the celebrated monk Matthew of Paris, to whom we owe much of the knowledge we possess of the history of the Abbey up to his own days.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Rev. Thomas Perkins

In the goodly folios crowded there are contained the chronicles of Holinshed and Hall; of Grafton, Fabian, and Stow; of Matthew of Paris, and his namesake of Westminster.

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth

Bede, and Chaucer, and Matthew of Paris, and Froissart, are far more redolent of antiquity.

From Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers by W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins

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