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Updated: July 21, 2025
The friends and followers of Becket told on every side and in every way, in prose or poetry, in Latin or Norman-French, the story of their master's martyrdom and miracles. The greatest historian of his day, William of Newburgh, was monk in a quiet little Yorkshire monastery. Gervase, a monk of Canterbury, began the Chronicle that bears his name in 1185.
A ferry across the river existed here from ancient times. "Pilgrim", or "Pilgerin", as he is variously called, is an historical personage. He was bishop of Passau from 971 to 991. Without doubt he is a late introduction, according to Boer between 1181 and 1185. See Boer, ii, 204, and E.L. Dummler, "Pilgrim von Passau", Leipzig, 1854. "Truncheons", see Adventure II, note 8.
As a last refuge the Taira leaders made their way to the Straits of Shimonoseki, where they had a large fleet of junks. The final struggle in this war took place in the fourth month of the year 1185. Yoshitsuné had with all haste got together a fleet, and the two armies, now afloat, met on the waters of the strait for the greatest naval battle that Japan had ever known.
Seventeen campaigns, more or less energetic and systematic, the Normans had fought. Munster was still in 1185 when John Lackland made his memorable exit and entrance on the scene almost wholly in the hands of the ancient clans. Connaught was as yet without a single Norman garrison.
It was truly a mighty armada which set sail, under the supreme command of Don Fadrique de Toledo, from the Iberian ports at the beginning of 1625, for it consisted of fifty ships with five caravels and four pinnaces, carrying 12,566 men and 1185 guns.
He arrived in Waterford, accompanied by a fleet of sixty ships, on the last of March, 1185, and remained in the country till the following November. If anything could excuse the levity, folly and misconduct of the Prince on this expedition, it would be his youth; he was then only eighteen. But Henry had taken every precaution to ensure success to his favourite son.
But about 1185 we find Sweyn Aageson complimenting Saxo, and saying that Saxo "had `determined' to set forth all the deeds" of Sweyn Estridson, in his eleventh book, "at greater length in a more elegant style". The exact bearing of this notice on the date of Saxo's History is doubtful.
He arrived in Waterford, accompanied by a fleet of sixty ships, on the last of March, 1185, and remained in the country till the following November. If anything could excuse the levity, folly and misconduct of the Prince on this expedition, it would be his youth; he was then only eighteen. But Henry had taken every precaution to ensure success to his favourite son.
CIVIL WAR: FEUDALISM. The final struggle of the two clans, the Hei or Taira, and the Gen or Minamoto, was in the naval battle of Dannoura, in 1185, which was followed by the extermination of the Taira. Yoritomo, the victor, was known as the Shogun after 1192. The supremacy of his clan gave way in 1219 to that of their adherents, the Hojo family, who ruled the Shogun and the emperor both.
Seventeen campaigns, more or less energetic and systematic, the Normans had fought. Munster was still in 1185 when John Lackland made his memorable exit and entrance on the scene almost wholly in the hands of the ancient clans. Connaught was as yet without a single Norman garrison.
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