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Welsh writer and chronicler. While a canon at
Oxford, he wrote Historia Regum
Britanniae/History of the Kings of Britain c.
1139, which included accounts of the
semi-legendary kings Lear, Cymbeline, and
Arthur, and Vita Merlini, a life of the
legendary wizard. He was bishop-elect of St
Asaph, N Wales 1151 and ordained a priest
1152.