John of Trokelowe () was an English chronicler and

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monk of the fourteenth century. He was a monk of St Albans Abbey, and in 1294 was living in the dependent priory of Tynemouth,

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. Once he was thought to be a significant

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, on the basis of internal evidence; it is now considered very possible that he was merely the scribe for

William Rishanger William Rishanger (born 1250), nicknamed "Chronigraphus", was an English annalist and Benedictine monk of St. Albans. Rishanger quite likely wrote the ''Opus Chronicorum'', a continuation from 1259 of Matthew Paris's ''Chronicle''. In effect it is ...

.Antonia Gransden, ''Historical Writing in England II'' (1982), p. 5. The prior and monks endeavoured to sever connection with St Albans and to obtain independence by presenting the

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to the king; but abbot

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resisted this arrangement, visited Tynemouth, and sent Trokelowe with other monks as prisoners back to St Albans. There Trokelowe wrote his including the period 1259 to 1296 and a useful account of the reign of Edward II, from 1307 to 1323, after which date his chronicle was continued by

Henry de Blaneford Henry (de) Blaneforde or Blankfrount () was an English chronicler and a Benedictine monk of St. Albans.Carley 2004. He wrote a short continuation of the chronicle of Trokelowe for the years 1323 to 1324.Hunt 1886, p. 204. Works A fragment o ...

. A reference made by Trokelowe to the execution of Roger Mortimer shows that he was writing after 1330.

References

*Riley, in

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(London, 1866). *Riley, Introduction to Rishanger, Chronicle in the in the same series *Hardy, ''Descriptive Catalogue'' (London, 1871) *Hunt in the '' Dictionary of National Biography''

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