Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Henry of Huntingdon

Born: 1080
Died: 1160 (aged 80)
Bio: Henry of Huntingdon, the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian, the author of a history of England, the Historia Anglorum, "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy".
Known for:
- Historia Anglorum
- The History of the English People, 1000-1154