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Excerpt from Willelmi Malmesbiriensis Monachi De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum Libri Quinque: Edited From the Autograph Manuscript
It is generally conjectured that he was born about 1095. The first historical mention of him is his own statement that he aided abbot Gode frey in forming the library at Malmesbury. Abbot Godefrey died in l 105 before this period William had therefore arrived at man's estate. H is lineage was partly Norman and partly English. He received a good education from his father, and for sook for literature other pursuits. He enjoyed the particular friend ship of Robert, earl of Gloucester, natural son of Henry I., and warmly espoused the cause of the empress Matilda again st Stephen.
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