 | John Britton - Architecture - 1814 - 1124 pages
...noble descent ascribed to him in the words At ducibut de nobilibns primnrdia duxit. But he may hare been the younger son of some noble family in Normandy,...historians, or they may have introduced it here for rhyme lake. Ue died Deoember the 4th, 1139."— See also Cough's Sep. Men. Under Under the next arch is an... | |
 | Stephen Hyde Cassan - Bishops - 1824 - 854 pages
...the uncertainty of human events. The conclusion, propeque tibi gemma, reluxit, seems an address Jo the Church, reminding her of the lustre he reflected...the noble descent ascribed to him in the words de dupibus, de nobilibus primordia duxit. But he may have been the younger son of some noble family in... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...Gough himself (conscious of the inapplicability of the passage to Bishop Roger) proceeds to say, " My only difficulty is about the noble descent ascribed...which the Monks may have known from evidences not mentioned by general historians, or they may have introduced it here for rhyme sake." The above hypothesis... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...Gough himself (conscious of the inapplicability of the passage to Bishop Roger) proceeds to say, " My only difficulty is about the noble descent ascribed to him in the words, dc ducibus, de nobilibus, primordia duxit. But he may have been the younger son of some noble family... | |
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My only difficulty is about the noble descent, ascribed to him, in the words ' de ducibus de nobilibus primordia duxit,' but he may have been the younger son of some noble family in Normandy, which the monks may have known, from evidences not noticed... 