Matthew Paris
historical figure · 1 work · 11 mentions · 21 anchored passages
M. Paris · Matthew · Paris
in the texts
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
Chronicler writing in the generation after John, cited for his condemnation of John's surrender of the Crown to the Pope, but treated by the author as a partisan rather than impartial witness.
Matthew Paris, indeed, writing in the next generation, describes it as “a thing to be detested for all time”;
Matthew Paris, he tells us, attributes the whole movement to the sudden discovery of Henry I.
Matthew Paris narrates how it was found necessary to curb the excesses of the twenty–five Executors of the Charter by the nomination of a second body of thirty–eight barons, drawn from both parties.