William Worcester (c. 1415 - c. 1482) is an English chronicler and antique dealer.
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He was the son of William of Worcester, a resident of Bristol , and was sometimes called William Botoner; his mother was the daughter of Thomas Botoner of Catalonia .
He was educated at Oxford and became secretary of Sir John Fastolph . When the knight died in 1459, Wooster discovered that he had not bequeathed anything to him, although he was one of the performers of his last will, so he challenged the validity of the will with one of his colleagues, Sir William Yelverton. As a result, agreement was reached, and William received some land near Norwich and in Southwark. He died around 1482.
William of Worcester made several trips around England, and his work Itinerarium contains a wealth of valuable historical information. The Bristol section is of considerable value to historians and antique dealers. This writing was partly published in 1778 by James Nasmit, the section concerning Bristol, published in 1823 by James Dallaue called William Wyrcestre Redivivus , and in 1834 reissued in his Antiquities of Bristowe . A modern scientific publication and translation edited by John Harvey, published in 1969 under the title Itineraries of William Worcestre .
William Worcester also owns the work of Annales rerum Anglicarum - a work still of some importance for studying the history of England during the reign of Henry VI . It was published by Thomas Herne in 1728 and by Joseph Stevenson for the Rolls series, along with his work on Henry VI (1864) [3] . Stevenson also printed messages left by William Worcester in which he glorifies the wars waged by the British in France and Normandy.
Other writings by William Worcester include his latest work, Acta Domini Johannis Fastolf .
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- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 100944884 // General Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- Artz Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ Index to the Rolls Series . Compiled by Steven H Silver.
- This article (section) contains a text taken (translated) from the eleventh edition of the British Encyclopedia , which has been transferred to the public domain .