Gaimar, Geoffrey

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

(fl. 1140?)

Chronicler, translated the chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth into French verse for the wife of his patron, Ralph Fitz-Gilbert, and added a continuation dealing with the Saxon Kings. His work is entitled L'Estoire des Engles.

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