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WILLIAM THE BRETON (c. 1,6o–c. 1225)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM THE BRETON (c. 1,6o–c. 1225)  , French chronicler and poet, was as his name indicates born in
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Brittany . He was educated at Mantes and at the university of Paris, afterwards becoming
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chaplain to the French king Philip Augustus, who employed him on
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diplomatic errands, and entrusted him with the
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education of his natural son,
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Pierre Chariot . William is supposed to have been
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present at the
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battle of
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Bouvines . His
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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
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work of Rigord (q.v.), who wrote a
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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
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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
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des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France, tomes xi. and all . (Paris, 1823-1835) .

See Delaborde's introduction, and A .

Molinier,
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Les
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Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii . (Paris, 1903) .

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