Matter of Britain Figure
Geoffrey of Monmouth
- Summary
- Probably Welsh or Breton, working at Oxford, later bishop-elect of St Asaph (a see he seems never to have visited). Author of the Historia Regum Britanniae, the Prophetiae Merlini and the Vita Merlini. His contemporaries suspected him: William of Newburgh wrote that Geoffrey had made up everything about Arthur 'from an inordinate love of lying'.
- Dates
- c. 1095-1155
- Kind
- author
Worldviews
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH