biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1130–86)
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| biography:
| Chronicler and clergyman, born in Palestine of French parents. Educated at Paris and Bologna, he entered the service of the kings of Jerusalem, and was appointed Archbishop of Tyre in 1175. His main work, Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum (History of Deeds in Foreign Parts), deals with the history of Palestine from 614 to 1184, and is especially valuable to the historian of the 12th-c Crusades. |
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