Geoffrey Gaimar, also written Geffrei or Geoffroy, was an Anglo-Norman chronicler. His contribution to medieval literature and history was as a translator from Old English to Anglo-Norman.
Writers born in the 1180s 6
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Geoffrey Gaimar, also written Geffrei or Geoffroy, was an Anglo-Norman chronicler. His contribution to medieval literature and history was as a translator from Old English to Anglo-Norman. His L'Estoire des Engleis, or History of the English People, written about 1136-1140, was a chronicle in eight-syllable rhyming couplets, running to 6,526 lines.
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deceased
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Lived 1186 to 1137 · aged -49
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