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A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 12
… cartulary, in a confused entry, calls the founder 'William FitzOsbert' and implies that Robert, earl of Leicester, who …
A Survey of London
… Iustices sate in the tower. In the yeare 1196. William Fitzosbert, a Citisen of London seditiously mouing the common …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… to those at Smithfield, but it was at Tyburn that William FitzOsbert was hanged in 1196 and at the elms there that …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… and Francis of Assisi The rising of London under William FitzOsbert in 1196 is best explained by a combination of both … any share in the constitution Indeed, ten years after FitzOsbert's rising, and fifteen years after the grant of the … most definite and the most interesting things we know of FitzOsbert's rising relate to FitzOsbert himself He had …
Old and New London
… the Londoners grew mutinous, and their leader, William Fitzosbert, or Longbeard, denounced their oppressors from … These disturbances ended in the siege of Bow Church, where Fitzosbert had fortified himself, and by the burning alive of …
Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire
… church at the end of the twelfth-century In 1196 William fitzOsbert, leader of the popular protest against exactions … This was probably the same tower as that in which William fitzOsbert had taken refuge in 1196. It was probably placed …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… Godwine and Geoffrey, reeves of Winchester, and William FitzOsbert, their clerk. 123 In the early years of the reign …