# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-of-cirencester
# Generated: 2026-08-16T14:47:44.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-of-cirencester"
name: "Richard of Cirencester"
slug: "richard-of-cirencester"
description: "Richard of Cirencester was a cleric and minor historian of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster. He was highly famed in the 18th and 19th century as the author of The Description of Britain before it was proved to have been a later forgery in 1846."
tagline: "14th-century monk and historian, victim of historical forgery"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1400"
deathDate: "1400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.96
  momentum:             1.558441558441558
  historical:           5.669870666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_de_Cirencester"
    title: "Richard de Cirencester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "ريتشارد من سيرنسستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_of_Cirencester"
    title: "Richard of Cirencester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirencesterli_Richard"
    title: "Cirencesterli Richard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_di_Cirencester"
    title: "Riccardo di Cirencester"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Ричард Сайренчестерский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2068762"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump