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Geoffrey of Monmouth

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Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100–1154)

Welsh writer and chronicler. While a canon at Oxford, he wrote Historia Regum Britanniae/History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1139), which included accounts of the semi-legendary kings Lear, Cymbeline, and Arthur. He is also thought by some to be the author of Vita Merlini, a life of the legendary wizard. He was bishop-elect of St Asaph, North Wales, in 1151 and ordained a priest in 1152.



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(the third Norman king who ruled our land) there lived a monk called Geoffrey of Monmouth.
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Geoffrey of Monmouth, 'Historia Regum Britanniae' (Latin), about 1136.
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