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A notorious medieval bandit






























          Eustace the Monk (far right)
          has his head hacked off in
          1217’s battle of Sandwich,
          in an illustration from
          Matthew Paris’s Chronica
          Majora. By the time of his                                                                                   THE MASTER AND FELLOWS OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE/BRIDGEMAN
          death, Eustace was one of
          the most feared bandits in
          northern Europe




















































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