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See also:PETER See also:LANGTOFT (d. c. 1307) , See also:English chronicler, took his name from the See also:village of See also:Langtoft in See also:Yorkshire, and was a See also:canon of the Augustinian priory in See also:Bridlington . His name is also given as Langetoft and Langetost . He wrote in See also:French See also:verse a See also:Chronicle dealing with the See also:history of See also:England from the earliest times to the See also:death of See also:Edward I. in 1307 . It consists of three parts and contains about 9000 rhyming verses . The earlier See also:part of the Chronicle is taken from See also:Geoffrey of See also:Monmouth and other writers; for the See also:period dealing with the reign of Edward I . Langtoft is a contemporary and valuable authority, esuecially for affairs in the See also:north of England and in See also:Scotland . Langtoft's Chronicle seems to have enjoyed considerable popularity in the north, and the latter part of it was translated into English by See also:Robert See also:Mannyng, sometimes called Robert of Brunne, about 1330 . It has been edited for the Rolls See also:Series by T . See also:Wright (1866–1868) . See Wright's See also:preface, and also O . Preussner, Robert Mannyng of Brunne's Ubersetsung von See also:Pierre de Langtofts Chronicle and ihr Verhaltniss sum Originale (See also:Breslau, 1891) . |
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