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Richard of Cirencester

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14th-century monk and historian, victim of historical forgery

WritersLived 1400 to 1400 · aged 0
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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.

Writers born in the 1400s 6

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deceased
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Lived 1400 to 1400 · aged 0
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