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Geoffrey Of Monmouth: Quick Facts

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Died 1155
Notable Works “Historia regum Britanniae”
Subjects Of Study Arthurian legend • King Arthur • Merlin
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Lawamon
English poet
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
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Robert Mannyng
English poet
Original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley for an 1893–94 edition of Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory.
Thomas Malory
English writer
William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
British historian
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Matthew Paris
English artist and historian
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Arnold Fitzthedmar
English alderman
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Florence Of Worcester
British historian
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Roger Of Hoveden
English historian
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John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
English statesman and author
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T. H. White
British writer
Holinshed, Raphael: Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande
Raphael Holinshed
English chronicler
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William Of Newburgh
English historian
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John Capgrave
English scholar
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Henry Knighton
British historian
Examine John Stow's systematic description of 16th-century London in his work A Survey of London
John Stow
English author
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Simeon Of Durham
English historian
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Peter Langtoft
English historian
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Robert Of Gloucester
English historian
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Thomas Hearne
British historian

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