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	Monmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monmouth (Welsh: Trefynwy) is a town in south Wales, county town of the traditional county of Monmouthshire.
		Monmouth boasts a 13th-century stone gated bridge, unique in Britain as it is the only preserved bridge of its design remaining.
		Henry V, born in Monmouth castle in 1387, who was immortalised in his victory at Agincourt and the square in the centre of town is named after this battle.
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	Geoffrey of Monmouth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geoffrey attested about six different charters between the years 1129 and 1151; the date of his death is recorded in the Welsh Chronicles.
		Geoffrey presented a series of apocalyptic narratives as the work of the earlier Merlin who, until Geoffrey's book came out, was known as "Myrddin".
		Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: Geoffrey of Monmouth from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907–21.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geoffrey_of_Monmouth (612 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey was born at Monmouth in Southeastern Wales and was of Welsh or Breton descent.
		Geoffrey's main purpose is to extol the glories of the Celtic Briton ancestors of the Welsh, of how they became mighty but were eventually conquered by the Saxons, the ancestors of the English, through treachery and their own moral decay.
		Geoffrey followed with the poetic Vita Merlini in an attempt at the resolution of discrepancies arising from the Historia.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/g/geoffrey_of_monmouth.html (757 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey's legend having received a new form from Sir Thomas Malory in the fifteenth century has again been given fresh life by Tennyson in the "Idylls of the Kings".
		Geoffrey claimed that his work was founded on a "most ancient book" -- probably a collection of British legends no longer extant.
		Geoffrey also wrote a Latin version of the Cymric "Prophecies of Merlin" and a life of Merlin is attributed to him.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/g/geoffrey_of_monmouth.html (418 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey was apparently a canon at the secular college of St. George's until the institution's demise in 1149.
		Geoffrey is the reason why nearly everyone in the western world knows who King Arthur is. It was he who lit the romantic literary flame, and European writers had a field day with it for several hundred years.
		Geoffrey's history gave the Britons a distinguished origin (Brutus), established their reputation as a force to be reckoned with in Europe (Belinus and Brennius as well as Arthur), and trivialized the notion of good Saxon government by "demonstrating" that Alfred's much-touted law was nothing more than a translation of ancient British law.
	www.english.udel.edu /dean/621/geoffrey.html (3378 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Geoffrey's work was the conduit by which the preciously oral legends entered the literary world.
		Geoffrey was probably born around 1100 and seems to have lived in Oxford from 1129 onwards at a college of cannons called St. George's: he may have taught there.
		Geoffrey must have known much of the Welsh tradition that had survived and many details can be traced back to this.
	www.mindspring.com /~slish/geoffrey.htm (211 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Geoffrey Chaucer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1324 John Chaucer, Geoffrey's father, was kidnapped by an aunt in the hope of marrying the twelve year-old boy to her daughter; an attempt to keep property in Ipswich.
		Thomas' great-grandson, Geoffrey’s great-great-grandson, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln was the heir to the throne designated by Richard III, before he was deposed.
		Geoffrey's other children probably included Elizabeth Chaucy, a nun, Agnes, an attendant at Henry IV's coronation and another son Lewis Chaucer.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Geoffrey_Chaucer (2810 words)

	GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Geoffrey of Monmouth was born sometime around 1100, perhaps in Monmouth in southeast Wales.
		Geoffrey was appointed archdeacon of Llandsaff in 1140 and was consecrated bishop of St. Asaph in 1152.
		Geoffrey's Merlin, a combination of the young and prophetic Ambrosius in Nennius's history and the prophet Myrddin who figures in several Welsh poems, first appears in a book known as the Prophetiae Merlini (The Prophecies of Merlin), which was written about 1135 but then incorporated as Book VII of the Historia.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/geoffrey.htm (390 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After Geoffrey, Arthur was adopted by the Normans as a symbol of national pride.
		Geoffrey's history is laughable; contemporaries called him "the father of lies." His storytelling, however, is fascinating and highly influential.
		Thanks to Geoffrey, Shakespeare was inspired to write two of his plays: Cymbeline, and his great tragedy King Lear, possibly second only to Hamlet.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/geoffrey.html (183 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth biography
		Geoffrey's work came at a time of turmoil in England; the country was torn apart by civil war as King Stephen and Queen Maude struggled for ascendancy.
		Geoffrey certainly did not invent the King Arthur legends, but he gathered together several strands of myth and history and retold the stories in a more "modern" medieval fashion.
		In 1151 Geoffrey was appointed Bishop of St. Asaph in Flintshire.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/monmouth.htm (513 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph and writer on early British history, was born about the year 1100.
		In the next century the influence of Geoffrey is unmistakably attested by the Brut of Layamon, and the rhyming English chronicle of Robert of Gloucester.
		In the work of expanding and elaborating this theme the successors of Geoffrey went as far beyond him as he had gone beyond Nennius; but he retains the credit due to the founder of a great school.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Geoffrey of Monmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Geoffrey of Monmouth GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH [Geoffrey of Monmouth], c.1100-1154, English author.
		He was probably born at Monmouth and was of either Breton or Welsh descent.
		His Roman de Brut (1155) is a long, rhymed chronicle of British history based on the Historia of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/05000.html (543 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		He was Geoffrey of Monmouth, who wrote one of the most influential - though not one of the most truthful - books of the Middle Ages.
		To Geoffrey we owe the pleasant fiction that Britain was founded by Brutus, a fugitive from Troy (of Trojan Horse fame).
		Geoffrey also claimed that early Scotland, England, and Wales were divided between the three sons of Brutus, and that the eldest, Locrinus, had received England.
	www.britainexpress.com /wales/history/geoffrey-monmouth.htm (373 words)

	King Arthur: Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey of Monmouth, writing in the 12th century, had quite a retinue of Welsh tales to work from, as evidenced on the previous page.
		Geoffrey is quite clear in naming Modred as the instrument of Arthur's death and vice versa.
		Geoffrey makes mention of the final battle but says only that Modred was slain and that Arthur was mortally wounded; no mention is made of who killed whom.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/4186/Arthur/htmlpages/historicalliterature2.html (1101 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		His Historia regum Britanniae (written c.1135), supposedly a chronicle of the kings of Britain, is one of the chief sources of the Arthurian legend.
		Geoffrey was the first to write a coherent account of Arthur, establishing the great warrior as a national hero, the conqueror of Western Europe.
		He drew information from the writings of Bede, Gildas, Nennius, the Welsh chronicles, and folklore, and imaginatively wove the whole into a fictional narrative in the form of a history.
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	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		The notion that Geoffrey drew from the text of the Old Testament in creating his epic history of the British is not isolated to comparisons between the figures of Arthur and David.
		Geoffrey’s fashioning of the British in the image of the Hebrews is not confined solely to the nature in which the nation progresses.
		Given Geoffrey’s objective in creating the character of Arthur, it is not in the least surprising that he chose David as a model for his British hero.
	www.yu.edu /faculty/haahr/projects2000/stavsky_final/ArthurDavid.htm (3131 words)

	Parry and Caldwell on Geoffrey of Monmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For Geoffrey's contemporaries this story of Arthur seems to have been the high point of the book, as it is for moderns, and Geoffrey clearly intended it to be.
		Geoffrey's avowed purpose in composing his magnum opus was to provide the descendants ofthe Britons with a history of their race from the earliest times.
		In conclusion, one may say of Geoffrey of Monmouth that he was a scholar with a very wide range of reading, a stylist of high competence in both prose and verse, a bold and imaginative writer of fiction in the guise of history.
	www.csun.edu /~sk36711/WWW/engl443/parrycaldwell.htm (1390 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Shortly after its composition, Geoffrey's HRB was lambasted as a pack of lies[2], since it attempted to present, in a chronological fashion with meticulous attention to the conventions of historical writing, the history of the nation of Britain from its legendary settlement by the Trojans up until the Saxon domination of the island.
		Geoffrey himself describes the deeds of the great kings whom he writes about as "a multis populis quasi inscripta iocunde et memoriter predicarentur"[13] [just as if written, they were proclaimed by many people joyfully and from memory].
		Regardless of whether Geoffrey based the more "Welsh" aspects of his Merlin character on these poems, or was even aware of their existence, what is clear is that the Merlin of whose madness Geoffrey sings in VM demonstrates a connection between Welsh materials and the Latin tradition that begins with Nennius.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/Geoffbio.htm (2661 words)

	stubborn - lass [dot] net
		Geoffrey of Monmouth also claims that Guinevere was of Roman descent, quite beautiful, and was raised by the Duke Cador of Cornwall.
		However, according to Geoffrey’s text, at her coronation Guinevere was crowned with laurel, something that could be taken as a symbol of her being a victorious warrior queen, though by that time it was tradition for her to wear it anyway.
		While Geoffrey of Monmouth does tell us she wore the ensigns of her royalty he fails to elaborate, thus eliminating the possibility of a clue regarding Guinevere’s own origins.
	www.stubborn-lass.net /guinevere.php (2079 words)

	Geoffrey Ashe's "The discovery of king Arthur" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Geoffrey of Monmouth claimed that he based his story on facts recorded in an "ancient book written in the British language".
		It has generally been assumed that this was the thin basis of Monmouth's tale, and that he invented the rest, inflating Arthur from a competent post-Roman British leader to a restorer of Roman ideals, bringer of order, a leader of great and noble knights, and ultimately a contender for leadership of the Roman Empire itself.
		He argues that the most distinctive feature of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Arthur is not his battles against the Saxons, on which subsequent reworkings of the legend have focussed, but his extensive campaigning overseas, particularly in Gaul.
	www.physics.wustl.edu /~alford/arthur.html (715 words)

	EBK: Geoffrey of Monmouth (110-1155)
		Geoffrey is traditionally said to have been a Welshman, born somewhere in the region of Monmouth around 1100, though one or both of his parents may have come from Brittany.
		Certainly ‘Geoffrey’s Window’ at which he is said to have sat and written his famous works and ‘Geoffrey’s Study’ used as a schoolroom within the Priory Gatehouse are only of late 15th century date.
		Geoffrey made a more appreciative acquaintance while at St. George’s, in the person of Walter the Provost, who was also Archdeacon of the city.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /arthur/geofmon.html (987 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey of Monmouth is best remembered for his History of the Kings of Britain (Historia Regum Britanniae), a historical and creative account of the kings of Britain, beginning with Brutus and continuing through Cadwallader, the last British king.
		He was born in approximately 1100 A.D. The name Geoffrey usus, Galfridus Monemutensis, suggests that he was born or at least raised in Monmouth.
		Geoffrey more than likely became a canon at a small college of secular canons attached to the church of St. George, of which Walter was provost.
	www.msu.edu /user/spottswh/eng454/geoffrey.html (458 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey catered to a growing interest among his Norman public in the history of their adopted homeland.
		Geoffrey also supplied another kind of “history” in his Prophecies of Merlin, which first appeared separately and were subsequently incorporated into the Historia Regum Britanniae as a self-contained section.
		Geoffrey combined the figure of Ambrosius, the young soothsayer from Nennius's Historia Brittonum, with an eponymous founder of Carmarthen and the Northern Welsh prophet and warrior Myrddin.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1715 (614 words)

	The Battle of Winwaed: Geoffrey of Monmouth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Geoffrey of Monmouth can be very unreliable, as he mixes myths with existing historical accounts.
		Geoffrey knew of (and elsewhere referenced) Bede's Ecclesiastical History, so there is the possibility that he copied Bede's account of the battle.
		Geoffrey's account is from the other side of the battle to that of Bede's.
	www.winwaed.com /history/winwaed/geoffrey.shtml (343 words)

	Geoffrey of Monmouth
		Geoffrey (not Monmouth—that was his home town, not his name) compiled a history of the British kings from the very first, Brutus, until the last, Cadwallader.
		According to Geoffrey, he fled his home in Latium (modern-day Rome) because he had accidentally killed his father; gathering to himself an army of followers, he eventually settled in Britain, a country that took its name from his.
		But Geoffrey of Monmouth left one question unanswered.
	www.moval.edu /Faculty/adderleym/Arthur/geoffrey.htm (548 words)

	Amazon.com: The History of the Kings of Britain (Classics S.): Books: Geoffrey of Monmouth,Lewis Thorpe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Geoffrey of Monmouth is the man who really started the "King Arthur Craze" of the 12th and 13th centuries.
		Geoffrey was probably Welsh, and some believe that he writes the HRB to please the Norman ascendancy as they have defeated the Anglo-Saxons (the old enemy of the Welsh) a few generations earlier.
		Lastly, Geoffrey writes "to be read by the solitary reader, not to be declaimed aloud...recital." While unable to resist the temptation to exalt certain characters he favor, Geoffrey is sensitive to leave much room for the reader's imagination.
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	Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Brutiau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		However, the academic consensus is that they are translations from Geoffrey’s Latin text, omitting his dedications and harmonising the narrative with existing Welsh traditions.
		All versions omit any reference to Geoffrey and also his preface, his comments throughout the work and the epilogue found in some of the Latin texts (HRB xii.20).
		Indeed, it could be argued that Geoffrey added the preface, the scattered comments and the epilogue.
	www.kmatthews.org.uk /arthuriana/page_2.html (240 words)

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