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Henry Knighton
English medieval chronicler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the English artist, see Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond.
Henry Knighton (or Knyghton) (died c. 1396, in England) was an Augustinian canon at the abbey of St Mary of the Meadows, Leicester, England, and an ecclesiastical historian (chronicler).[1] He wrote a history of England from the Norman conquest until 1396, thought to be the year he died.[2]
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