Matthew of Westminster, long regarded as the author of the Flores Historiarum, is now thought never to have existed. The Flores Historiarum (Flowers of History) is a Latin chronicle dealing with English history from the creation to 1326 (although some of the earlier manuscripts end at 1306). ...
The error was first discovered in 1826 by Francis Turner Palgrave, who said that Matthew was "a phantom who never existed," and later the truth of this statement was completely proved by HR Luard. The name appears to have been taken from that of Matthew Paris, from whose Chronica majora the earlier part of the work was mainly copied, and from Westminster Abbey, where the work was partially written. Francis Turner Palgrave (September 28, 1824 - October 24, 1897) was a British critic and poet. ... Self portrait of Matthew Paris from a manuscript of his chronicle (London, British Library, MS Royal 14. ... The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster (Westminster Abbey), a mainly Gothic church, on the scale of a cathedral, is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. ...
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On the other hand, unexpurgated copies were made in Matthew's lifetime; though the offending passages are duly omitted or softened in his abridgment of his longer work, the Historia Anglorum (written about 1253), the real sentiments of the author must have been an open secret.
Matthew is a vehement supporter of the monastic orders against their rivals, the secular clergy and the mendicant friars.
Matthew Paris is sometimes confused with "Matthew of Westminster," the reputed author of the Flores historiarum edited by Luard (3 vols., Rolls series, 1890).
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