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    English People and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It was first recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 12th-century Historia Regum Britanniae (in various spellings...
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    of Monmouth after Roger, the son of William fitzOsbern, was disgraced. The priory may have once been the residence of the monk Geoffrey of Monmouth, who...
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    Prophetiae Merlini (category Works by Geoffrey of Monmouth)
    The Prophetiæ Merlini is a Latin work of Geoffrey of Monmouth circulated, perhaps as a libellus or short work, from about 1130, and by 1135. Another name...
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  • have also written a version of the Brut story, a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) into Anglo-Norman...
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  • Huntingdonshire in a reference to a "John, son of Urian". In the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth used the Latinized form Urbianus for the semi-legendary British king...
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  • passed to his younger brother, Geoffrey, 6th Baron Raglan, but he willed the family seat, Cefntilla Court, to a nephew, Henry van Moyland of Los Angeles, not...
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    myths and historical figures. The earliest documented account, by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Vita Merlini (written c. 1150) refers to Morgan in association...
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    Red Bank is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Incorporated in 1908, the community is on the Navesink River, the area's original...
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    Bodedern, in Anglesey, and the church in the village of Edern, Gwynedd. Geoffrey of Monmouth. History of the Kings of Britain. Roman de Brut and Erec and Enide...
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    offspring does not occur in Western literature until around 1136, when Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the story of Merlin in his pseudohistorical account of British...
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    University Press. Crick, J. C. (1991). The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, IV. Dissemination and reception in the later Middle Ages (Vol. IV)...
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    notable Whigs, including the Earl of Essex and the Duke of Monmouth, were implicated. Monmouth initially confessed to complicity in the plot and implicated...
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    increased after foreign versions, particularly those derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, became known in Wales. The Gwyar (meaning...
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    letter becomes MGG (Magog). 4Q523 scroll The giant mentioned by Geoffrey of Monmouth in Historia Regum Britanniae (1136 AD). Composed between the 4th...
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    had an older brother, Neil. The family lived in Chicago, Galesburg, and Monmouth before returning to Tampico. In 1920, they settled in Dixon, Illinois,...
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  • of Naval Officer Charles Hamilton (killed during World War I when HMS Monmouth sank in 1914). She meets Richard when she asks for help to establish a...
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    Dictionary of Phrase and Fable attributes this tale to Geoffrey of Monmouth, but though book eight of Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae does describe how Stonehenge...
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    England, Henry FitzRoy, son of Henry VIII of England, and the Duke of Monmouth, son of Charles II. The Anglo-Norman surname Fitzroy means son of a king...
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    Macedonian dynasty and Phokas family claimed descent from Constantine. Geoffrey of Monmouth embroidered a tale that the legendary king of Britain, King Arthur...
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    Buckinghamshire. Van der Kiste, p. 158 Van der Kiste, p. 114 Van der Kiste, p. 115 Quoted in Van der Kiste, p. 115 Beard, Geoffrey (August 1970). William...
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    Lancelot. These stories are most centrally brought together within Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain). Some...
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    The town also has strong historical and literary associations: Geoffrey of Monmouth elevated the significance of Caerleon as a major centre of British...
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  • Cotswolds Geoffrey Clifton-Brown Anna Mainwaring Paul Hodgkinson Jason Preece Chloe Turner Jean Blackbeard (Independent) Conservative Geoffrey Clifton-Brown...
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    in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher. George VI died on 6 February 1952 and Charles's mother acceded...
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    I: 1625–1640, Harlow: Pearson Education, ISBN 0-5820-0354-7 Robertson, Geoffrey (2002), Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice (2nd ed...
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    reference to King Arthur. The Arthurian legend was further developed by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Poet Dafydd ap Gwilym (fl. 1320–1370) is regarded as one of the...
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    mythology and the Celtic legends of the Arthurian cycle collected by Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. c. 1155). Other literary genres included spiritual autobiographies...
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    offspring does not occur in Western literature until around 1136, when Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote the story of Merlin in his pseudohistorical account of British...
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    for Army Historical Research. 83 (333): 11–29. ISSN 0037-9700. Elton, Geoffrey R. (1977). Reform and Reformation: England, 1509–1558. Edward Arnold. ISBN 0-7131-5952-9...
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  • information from the Historia Regum Britanniae, which was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth. After this, starting with Cerdic, the chronicle is primarily a translation...
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