GILLES DE ROYE  , or EcIDIus DE ROYA (d . 1478), Flemish chronicler, was

born probably at Montdidier, and became a Cistercian monk . He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at .Asnieressur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes, near Furnes, and devoting his time to study . Gilles wrote the Chronicon Dunense or Annales Belgici, a resume and continuation of the work of another monk, Jean Brandon (d . 1428), which deals with the history of Flanders, and also with events in Germany, Italy and England from 792 to 1478 . The Chronicle was published by F . R . Sweert in the Rerum Belgicarum annales (Frankfort, 1620) ; and the earlier part of it by C . B . Kervyn de Lettenhove in the Chroniques relatives d l'histoire de la Belgique (Brussels, 1870) .