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WILLIAM THE BRETON (c. 1,6oc. 1225)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 675 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WILLIAM THE BRETON (c. 1,6oc. 1225) ,
French
  chronicler and poet, was as his name indicates born in Brittany. He was educated at Mantes and at the university of Paris, afterwards becoming chaplain to the
French
  king Philip
Augustus
 , who employed him on diplomatic errands, and entrusted him with the education of his natural son, Pierre Chariot. William is supposed to have been present at the
battle
  of Bouvines. His works are the Philippide and the Gesta
Philippi
  H. regis Francorum. The former, a poem three versions of which were written by the author, gives some very interesting details about Philip
Augustus
  and his time, including some information about military matters and shows that William was an excellent Latin scholar. In its final form the Gesta is an abbreviation of the
work
  of Rigord (q.v.), who wrote a
life
  of Philip Augustus from 1179 to 1206, and a continuation by William himself from 1207 to 1220. In both works William speaks in very laudatory terms of the king; but his writings are valuable because he had personal knowledge of many of the facts which he relates. He also wrote a poem Karlotis, dedicated to Pierre Charlot, which is lost.
\\'illiam's works have been edited with introduction by H. F.
Delaborde
  as 2Euvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le
Breton
  (Paris, 1882-1885), and have been translated into French by Guizot in Collection des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France, tomes xi. and all. (Paris, 1823-1835). See
Delaborde
 's introduction, and A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii. (Paris, 1903).


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