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Historia Regum BritanniaeGeoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanni (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) was written around 1136. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years. It begins with the Trojans in Homer's The Illiad and continues until the Anglo-Saxons had assumed control of Britain around the 7th century. Of the many rulers mentioned in the history, most notable are: The history of Geoffrey is rough and unreliable but forms the basis for much English lore and literature. The source of the history comes from Nennius and Gildas as well as Welsh chronicles and lost documents to which he refers but now seems lost. Most historians see the Historia as a work of fiction with some truth mixed within. Geoffrey of Monmouth's narrative is one of the central pieces in the Matter of Britain. Bibliography - John Jay Parry and Robert Caldwell. "Geoffrey of Monmouth" in ''Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages", Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881
- Brynley F. Roberts, "Geoffrey of Monmouth and Welsh Historical Tradition," Nottingham Medieval Studies, 20 (1976), 29-40.
- J.S.P. Tatlock. ''The Legendary History of Britian: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and its early vernacular versions. University of California Press. Berkley. 1950.
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