Geoff breton biography of william

  • Geoffrey Brito (or Geoffrey le Breton) (died 1128) was a native of Brittany who became Archbishop of Rouen in the Middle Ages.
  • For the man who invented King Lear and Arthurian literature as we know it, the details of Geoffrey's life remain largely a mystery.
  • Life and career​​ Geoffrey was born between about 1090 and 1100, in Wales or the Welsh Marches.

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    Writer Jonathan Coe


    What inspired you to write The Rotters' Club?


    I had always wanted to write a novel set in a school, using it - with all its power struggles, cliques and rivalries - as a microcosm for society as a whole. Very much in the way that Lindsay Anderson did in his brilliant bio If.


    Also, I wanted to write a book which presented a version of the Seventies as I remembered them: away from the comfortably nostalgic, retro, kitsch, glam-rock-and-spacehoppers version that television always seemed to offer us.


    There was more to the Seventies, I thought, than just Blue Peter and flared loons - although of course the temptation to have a bit of fun with all that was irresistible as well.


    How autobiographical is The Rotters' Club?


    All the background detail is autobiographical: the world the Trotter family inhabits is not far from my own family background, and the school in the novel, King William's, is clearly based on my own school, King Ed

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    Introduction and Biography

    Geoffrey of Monmouth has suffered a glorious indignity that few writers have ever achieved: his creation has completely outstripped the maker. Few members of the general public, even well-educated ones, recognize the name Geoffrey of Monmouth. (A fact that the personal experience of this chatty medievalist has confirmed on numerous awkward occasions). But his creation is another matter altogether. The names of King Arthur, Guinevere, and their attendant knights perk up the ears of taxi drivers, coal mining fathers and grandfathers, and even scholars of contemporary literature. Medievalists, though we may know Geoffrey’s name, have found him hard to contain and classify. So far-ranging is Geoffrey’s work that he falls under the purview of several scholarly fields, many of which remain relatively isolated from one another: folklore, history, romance, manuscript studies, Celtic studies, classical reception, and medieval Latin – not to

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    Geoffrey Brito

    Breton archbishop

    Geoffrey Brito (or Geoffrey le Breton) (died 1128) was a native of Brittany who became Archbishop of Rouen in the Middle Ages. He served as archbishop from 1111 to 1128.

    Brito was a native of Brittany and his family was noble. His brother Judicael was bishop of Saint-Malo. His first ecclesiastical appointment was as dean of Le Mans, around 1093.[1] In 1096 Geoffrey was almost elected as bishop of Le Mans, but in the end Hildebert of Lavardin was elected. Geoffrey next appears in the public record when he was selected by King Henry I of England as archbishop in 1111.[2] As archbishop, Geoffrey helped negotiate the marriage of Henry's daughter and heiress Matilda to Geoffrey of Anjou.[3]

    Brito died on either 26 or 28 November 1128.[3]

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    1. ^Spears "Geoffrey Brito" Haskins Society Journal p. 124
    2. ^Spears "Geoffrey Brito" Haskins Society Journal p. 125
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