- Piers Langtoft
Piers Langtoft, also known as Pierre de Langtoft (died c. 1307) was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in what was then
Yorkshire (nowEast Riding of Yorkshire ).Piers Langtoft was an
Augustinian monk atBridlington Priory who wrote a history ofEngland in Anglo-Norman verse, popularly known as "Langtoft's Chronicle". The history narrates from the legendary founding of Britain by Brutus to the death of KingEdward I of England . Langtoft translates the first part of hisChronicle fromWace 's "Roman de Brut ", and the second part from a number of sources, includingHenry of Huntingdon 's "Historia Anglorum". The third part is widely considered to be original to Langtoft, wherein he includes such details not recorded elsewhere as the fate of Gwenllian, daughter ofLlywelyn the Last of Wales. On the whole, the Chronicle is virulently anti-Scottish, and famously contains 9 'songs', in both Anglo-Norman and Middle English, supposedly capturing the taunts between English and Scottish soldiers during the English/Scottish conflict of the late-13th and early-14th centuries."Langtoft's Chronicle" was the source of the second part of
Robert Mannyng 's "Middle English Chronicle", completed around 1338.References
"The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft." ed. T. Wright. Rerum Britannicarum medii aevii scriptores. London, 1859.
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