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Died	1259

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Burgh, miniature by Matthew Paris from Historia Anglorum, mid-13th century; in the British Library (Royal MS. 14 c VII)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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William Camden

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Roger Of Hoveden

English historian

William Of Newburgh

English historian

Henry Knighton

British historian

John Stow

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Peter Langtoft

English historian

Robert Of Gloucester

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Thomas Hearne

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Thomas Walsingham

English monk

Ralph Of Coggeshall

English historian

Edward Hall

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Livy

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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.

Jean Froissart

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Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton

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Joseph Justus Scaliger

Dutch philologist and historian

Saint Theophanes the Confessor

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João de Barros

Portuguese historian

Garcilaso de la Vega

Spanish chronicler

Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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