[12] The History's effect on the legend of King Arthur was so vast that Arthurian works have been categorised as "pre-Galfridian" and "post-Galfridian", depending on whether or not they were influenced by him. [7] Geoffrey was known to his contemporaries as Galfridus Arturus or variants thereof. [8] Frank Merry Stenton and others have suggested that Geoffrey's parents may have been among the many Bretons who took part in William I's conquest and settled in the southeast of Wales. [19] It enjoyed a significant afterlife in a variety of forms, including translations and adaptations such as Wace's Anglo-Norman Roman de Brut, Layamon's Middle English Brut, and several anonymous Middle Welsh versions known as Brut y Brenhinedd ("Brut of the Kings"). How and why this occurs will also become apparent as we move to the evidence which shows categorically that ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth’ never existed. In his Historia, Geoffrey refers to himself as Galfridus Monemutensis, "Geoffrey of Monmouth", which indicates a significant connection to Monmouth, Wales, and which may refer to his birthplace. A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. It consists of a series of obscure prophetic utterances attributed to Merlin which he claimed to have translated from an unspecified language. Geoffrey was probably born some time between 1100 and 1110 in Wales or the Welsh Marches. Geoffrey wrote several works in Latin, the language of learning and literature in Europe during the medieval period. [8] He was probably a secular canon of St. George's college. "[17], Other contemporaries were similarly unconvinced by Geoffrey's History. [8], Earlier scholars assumed that Geoffrey was Welsh or at least spoke Welsh. Geoffrey von Monmouth (walisisch Gruffudd ap Arthur, auch Sieffre o Fynwy; lateinisch Galfridus Monemutensis; * um 1100 wohl in Monmouth; † um 1154 in Cardiff) war ein britischer Geistlicher, Gelehrter und Geschichtsschreiber. 32 Gildas states that ‘I shall not follow the writings of my own country, which (if there ever were any of them) have been consumed in the fires of the enemy’. Wenn ein oder mehrere Werke von einem anderen Autor mit gleichem Namen stammen, kannst Du gerne die Autorenseite in mehrere Seiten/Autoren aufspalten. [7] His works attest to some acquaintance with the place-names of the region. It retells incidents from the life of the Brythonic seer Merlin, and is based on traditional material about him. Historia regum Britanniae , Merlin (Legendary character) , Arthur, roi , Galfredus Monumetensis 1100-1154 , Arthur (roi) , Geoffroi de Monmouth, 1100? Jahrhundert), „Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike“, Gruffudd ap Arthur (walisisch); Sieffre o Fynwy; Galfridus Monemutensis (lateinisch). Perhaps the most incredible claim contained within the … The most thorough, though controversial, study of Geoffrey's art is J. S. P. Tatlock, The Legendary History of Britain (1950). In 2017, Miles Russell published the initial results of the Lost Voices of Celtic Britain Project established at Bournemouth University. The Welsh chronicles state that he died in 1155. Geoffrey was a Welsh monk who lived in the 12th century and made himself the most important historian in … He claimed that Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford, discovered an ancient manuscript in Armorica (Brittany) written in the British tongue i.e. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Oxford [edit | edit source] Geoffrey was born in circa 1090 in the border town of Monmouth between Norman England and the independent welsh principalities. Historia regum Britanniae, Geoffrey, de Moumouth, évêque de Saint-Asaph, 1100?-1154. Ancient Britons gloried in their Trojan ‘past’. [20] where it was generally accepted as a true account. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s motivation and his sources. Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a British cleric, anthropologist and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. Geoffrey of Monmouth has gone down in history for his classic epic, the Historia Regum Britanniae, known in English as The History of the Kings of Britain. A. Giles at, This page was last edited on 26 March 2021, at 01:51. In doing so, Geoffrey exercised considerable editorial control, massaging the information and smoothing out apparent inconsistencies in order to create a single grand narrative which fed into the preferred narrative of the Norman rulers of Britain. Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) (c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a British cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. All the charters signed by Geoffrey are also signed by Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, a canon at that church. [7], He may have served for a while in the Benedictine Monmouth Priory,[9] but most of his adult life appears to have been spent outside Wales. This masterpiece of medieval literature is well-known for being the origin of the story of King Arthur most of us are familiar with today. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work and the ‘Matter of Britain’ would hardly attract so much scholastic endeavour, if truly the subject had reached a conclusion. Another frequent co-signatory is Ralph of Monmouth, a canon of Lincoln. Geoffrey of Monmouth. The story is set long after the timeframe of the History's Merlin, but the author tries to synchronise the works with references to the mad prophet's previous dealings with Vortigern and Arthur. The Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a work by the Norman-Welsh author Geoffrey of Monmouth, composed in Latin around AD 1150. Es handelt sich um eine typische ethnogenetische Erzählung mit sehr vielen sagenhaften Elementen, die aber Material aus der walisischen Überlieferung aufgreift. Februar 2021 um 07:19 Uhr bearbeitet. IN THE first part of a series on how historians have harmed history, we turn to Geoffrey of Monmouth, a man who did more to damage early British history than any other. by Geoffrey of Monmouth About the author: Geoffrey seems to have been Welsh. [7] Monmouth had been in the hands of Breton lords since 1075[7] or 1086,[8] and the names Galfridus and Arthur were more common among the Bretons than the Welsh. But, what do we know about the author himself? Die Historia beginnt mit Brutus von Britannien dem Trojaner, der als Ahnherr aller Briten festgeschrieben wird, und reicht bis Caswallawn, dem König von Nordwales, der von etwa 625 bis 634 regierte. Biography. Geoffrey invented a mythical back-history for the Britons, starting,as Virgil did, with a fugitive from the sack of Troy, named Brute or Brutus. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Posted on March 19, 2015 by Joe Streckert in Episodes Tagged Arthurian Legend, Chretien de Troyes, Comic Books, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Movies, Pseudohistory. Geoffrey of Monmouth; Geoffrey of Monmouth (als Hauptautor) Autoren-Unterteilung. [13] It is likely, however, that the Archdeacon did furnish Geoffrey with some materials in the Welsh language which helped inspire his work, as Geoffrey's position and acquaintance with him would not have permitted him to fabricate such a claim outright. Geoffrey's earliest writing was probably the Prophetiae Merlini (Prophecies of Merlin) which he wrote before 1135, and which appears both independently and incorporated into The History of the Kings of Britain. In 1152 he was named bishop of St. Asaph in Wales. Mit seiner Beschreibung des Massakers an den britischen (keltischen) Adeligen durch die angelsächsischen Einwanderer im Jahre 450 in Salisbury prägte Geoffrey von Monmouth den stehenden Ausdruck Nacht der langen Messer. He is best known for his chronicle The History of the Kings of Britain (Latin: De gestis Britonum or Historia Regum Britanniae) which was widely popular in its day, being translated into other languages from its original Latin. Geoffrey seems to have brought together a disparate mass of source material, including folklore, chronicles, king-lists, dynastic tables, oral tales, and bardic praise poems, some of which was irrevocably garbled or corrupted. Crick 2004: "it seems likely that he was born within ten years of 1100". He was probably born at Monmouth and was of either Breton or Welsh descent. He had reached the age of majority by 1129 when he is recorded as witnessing a charter. Geoffrey of Monmouth Writing in Latin, Geoffrey adapted the Welsh legend of Myrddin Wyllt, altered his name to Merlin and made the character … Geoffrey Of Monmouth, medieval English chronicler and bishop of St. Asaph (1152), whose major work, the Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), brought the figure of Arthur into European literature. Literatur von und über Geoffrey von Monmouth, King Arthur’s tales 'pennend in Oxford Chapel' say researchers, https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Geoffrey_von_Monmouth&oldid=209179454, Römisch-katholischer Bischof (12. Durch seine Historia erlangte Geoffrey die Gunst des Earl of Gloucester, der ihn um 1140 zum Erzdiakon von Llandaff und 1152 zum Bischof von Asaph ernannte, welches Amt er aber wohl nie antrat. [14] Much of it is based on the Historia Britonum, a 9th-century Welsh-Latin historical compilation, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, and Gildas's 6th-century polemic De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, expanded with material from bardic oral tradition and genealogical tracts, and embellished by Geoffrey's own imagination. the Celtic language of the Britons prior to the arrival of the Saxons and Danes, something like the Welsh language. His present grave location is unknown; there is a memorial to him at the Pillory of Monmouth called "Geoffrey's Window", which is said to have been windows of a room in which he had resided for a time. Geoffrey of Monmouth Occupation Cleric Known for His chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae Geoffrey of Monmouth (mŏn`məth), c.1100–1154, English author. Author. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Histories of the Kings of Britainwas a medieval attempt to forge a national epic for the British people,shortly after the Norman conquest. Geoffrey was most likely born in Monmouth in Southern Wales: he identifies himself as "of Monmouth" in all three of his published Arthurian works (HRB, PM, and VM). Much of his work is considered to be pseudo-history. Geoffrey's major work was nevertheless widely disseminated throughout medieval Western Europe; Acton Griscom listed 186 extant manuscripts in 1929, and others have been identified since. Geoffrey of Monmouth was a twelfth century British churchman and writer. Auch die Artussage wird hier erstmals in ihrer ausgeschmückten Form vorgestellt. This has since led many modern scholars to agree with William of Newburgh, who wrote around 1190 that "it is quite clear that everything this man wrote about Arthur and his successors, or indeed about his predecessors from Vortigern onwards, was made up, partly by himself and partly by others. In 1151 he was appointed bishop of S. Asaph; he was ordained priest at Westminster on 11 February 1152 and consecrated bishop at Lambeth on 24 February 1152, but there is no evidence that he ever visited his see. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 25. - 1154. Geoffrey of Monmouth wird momentan als ein einzelner Autor angesehen. Mar 19 2015 22 Live at the Clinton Street Theater: How Arthurian Legend is Like Comic Books. [8] His knowledge of this language appears to have been slight, however,[8] and there is no evidence that he was of either Welsh or Cambro-Norman descent. Michael Curley also points out Geoffrey's affinity for Wales as, at least once in his re-writing of Nennius into the HRB, he changes scenes to locations closer to the city of Monmouth. The Vita did not circulate widely, and the attribution to Geoffrey appears in only one late 13th-century manuscript, but it contains recognisably Galfridian elements in its construction and content, and most critics recognise it as his. Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a British cleric, anthropologist and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. For two hundred years, modern scholars have been investigating Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work and they are still exasperated that ‘Geoffrey’ and his literary production remains an enigma. Vielleicht war er Benediktiner in der Monmouth Priory und Augustinerchorherr in Oxford. It was given historical credence well into the 16th century,[2] but is now considered historically unreliable. Most of his career was spent in Oxford (a thriving merchant community with schools but not yet a university town), where he was probably a secular canon at St. George's. Geoffrey of Monmouth by Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154; Evans, Sebastian, 1830-1909 Here he is known as Merlin of the Woods (Merlinus Sylvestris) or Scottish Merlin (Merlinus Caledonius) and is portrayed as an old man living as a crazed and grief-stricken outcast in the forest. [8], Archbishop Theobald of Bec consecrated Geoffrey as Bishop of St Asaph at Lambeth on 24 February 1152,[10] having ordained him a priest at Westminster 10 days before. [1], Geoffrey verfasste die Historia Regum Britanniae, die nach antikem Vorbild das Leben der britischen Könige beschreibt. He must have reached the age of majorityby 1129, when he is recorded as witnessing a charter. Geoffrey of Monmouth (Latin: Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy) (c. 1100 – c. 1155) was a Welsh cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. 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