GEOFFREY OF MON MOUTH

also known as Jeffrey Ap Arthur (d. 1154), an early Welsh ecclesiastic, 6. in Mon mouth, and consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph in 1152. His writings, history and fable interwoven, has had a lasting effect on literature, the most notable example of this being in Shakespeare’s King Lear, His chief work, the Chronic on sive Hist or i a Britonum, written about 1128, profe es to be a translation of a eurcniels in the British tongue. 1151), Count of Anjou, and 1144 Deke of Normandy; second husband of Matilda, daw. of Henry 1., and jf. of Henry II. of England.