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GEOFFREY THE BAKER (d. c. 136o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 617 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEOFFREY THE See also:BAKER (d. c. 136o)  , See also:English chronicler, is also called See also:Walter of Swinbroke, and was probably a See also:secular clerk at Swinbrook in See also:Oxfordshire . He wrote a Chronicon Angliae temporibus Edwardi II. et Edwardi III., which deals with the See also:history of See also:England from 1303 to 1356 . From the beginning until about 1324 this See also:work is based upon See also:Adam See also:Murimuth's Continuatio chronicarum, but after this date it is valuable and interesting, containing See also:information not found elsewhere, and closing with a See also:good See also:account of the See also:battle of See also:Poitiers . The author obtained his knowledge about the last days of See also:Edward II. from See also:William Bisschop, a See also:companion of the See also:king's murderers, See also:Thomas See also:Gurney and See also:John Maltravers . See also:Geoffrey also wrote a Chroniculum from the creation of the See also:world until 1336, the value of which is very slight . His writings have been edited with notes by See also:Sir E . M . See also:Thompson as the Chronicon Galfridi le See also:Baker de Swynebroke (See also:Oxford, 1889) . Some doubt exists concerning Geoffrey's See also:share in the compilation of the Vita et mors Edwardi II., usually attributed to Sir Thomas de la More, or See also:Moor, and printed by See also:Camden in his Anglica scripta . It has been maintained by Camden and others that More wrote an account of Edward's reign in See also:French, and that this was translated into Latin by Geoffrey and used by him in compiling his Chronicon . See also:Recent scholarship, however, asserts that More was no writer, and that the Vita et mors is an See also:extract from Geoffrey's Chronicon, and was attributed to More, who was the author's See also:patron . In the See also:main this conclusion substantiates the See also:verdict of See also:Stubbs, who has published the Vita et mors in his See also:Chronicles of the reigns of Edward I. and Edward II .

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London, 1883) . The See also:manuscripts of Geoffrey's See also:works are in the Bodleian library at Oxford .

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