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Summary Of: Wimund

Wimund may have been a member of the party sent from Furness to found a house... and it appears that Wimund was elected to the see during the time of... so that Wimund became Bishop of the Isles in the period 1134... Wimund in time claimed to be the son of the... Some have proposed that Wimund was a son of... has led to the supposition that Wimund was an illegitimate son of... Wimund was a charismatic man standing taller than most of those around him and of athletic... Wimund ran in to trouble when he demanded tribute payments from a Scottish bishop... he threw a hand axe at Wimund and struck him down in the first blow of the battle... He granted Furness and a province to Wimund in order to plant a false sense of security... important Wimund the sense that he really was the lie he had for so long told... Wimund toured his new province while a number of enemies inside his camp... Wimund has also been conflated with...

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