Medieval Lives 11: William Fitz Osbert and the Unrest in London

A 12th-century execution and the mixed messages in the chronicles around how things had gotten to that point. Did William with the Long Beard offer a better life to those unhappy in Richard I's London, or did he just take advantage of their misery to serve his own vices?

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Sources:

• The Annals of Roger de Hoveden, translated by Henry T. Riley. Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
• The Church Historians of England, volume IV, part II, translated by Joseph Stevenson. Seeley's, 1861.
• Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History, translated by J. A. Giles. Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
• Alexander, Dominic. "'The People are the Waters': Social Revolt in London, 1196-1381," Counterfire. May 30, 2021.
• Dennis, David E P. "The Rise and Fall of William Fitz Osbert."
• McEwan, John. "William FitzOsbert and the Crisis of 1196 in London," Florilegium. Volume 21, 2004.

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