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William III of Sicily (1190 - 1198) was briefly king of Sicily for 10 months in 1194. He was the second son of King Tancred of Sicily and Sibylla of Accera. At the age of four, shortly after the death of first his older brother Roger, Duke of Apulia, and then a few weeks later of his father the king (February 20, 1194), William was crowned king by Pope Celestine III in Palermo. He would be the last of Si ...

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The Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (ca 1190 - 1264?) wrote the main encyclopedia that was used in the middle ages. The exact dates of his birth and death are unknown and not much detail has surfaced concerning his career. Conjectures place him first in the house of the Dominicans at Paris between 1215 and 1220, and later at the Dominican monastery founded by Louis IX of France at Beauvais in Picardy. It is more certain, however,that he held the post of "reader" at the monastery of Royaumont on the Oise, not far from ...

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• Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Maius
• Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Naturale
• Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Doctrinale
• Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Historiale
• Vincent of Beauvais - Other Works
• Vincent of Beauvais - Reference

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Vincent's Speculum Maius ('The Great Mirror'), the compendium, of all the knowledge of the Middle Ages, seems to have consisted of three parts, the Speculum Naturale, Speculum Doctrinale and Speculum Historiale. All the printed editions, however, include a fourth part, the Speculum Morale, added in the 14th century and mainly compiled from Thomas Aquinas, Stephen de Bourbon, and a few other contemporary writers. See also:

Vincent of Beauvais, Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Maius, Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Naturale, Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Doctrinale, Vincent of Beauvais - Speculum Historiale, Vincent of Beauvais - Other Works, Vincent of Beauvais - Reference

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