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Welsh chronicler who wrote an account of the kings of Britain which is now believed to contain little historical fact but it is a source of the Arthurian legend (circa 1100-1154)

Geoffrey of Monmouth [Geoffrey of Monmouth]

(c. 1100–54) a Welsh ↑bishop and writer. He wrote Historia Regum Britanniae, a history of the kings of Britain before the arrival of the ↑Anglo-Saxons. It tells the stories of the kings in Shakespeare's plays, such as Lear and Cymbeline, but it is best known as the main source of all the ↑legends about King Arthur.