Peter Langtoft, also known as Peter of Langtoft (Old French: Piers de Langtoft; French: Pierre de Langtoft; died c. 1305), was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Langtoft was an Augustinian canon regular at Bridlington Priory who wrote a history of England in Anglo-Norman verse, popularly known as Langtoft's Chronicle. The history narrates the history of England from the legendary founding of Britain by Brutus to the death of King Edward I.[1] The first part of Langtoft's chronicle is translated from Wace's Roman de Brut ("Tale of Brutus"), and the second part is drawn from a number of sources, including Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum ("History of the English"). The third part is widely considered to be original work by Langtoft, and he includes in it details not recorded elsewhere such as the fate of Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales. On the whole, the chronicle is virulently anti-Scottish and famously contains nine 'songs', in both Anglo-Norman and Middle English, supposedly capturing the taunts between English and Scottish soldiers during the Anglo-Scottish conflicts of the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
Langtoft's Chronicle was the source of the second part of the Chronicle of Robert Mannyng, also known as Robert of Brunne, completed around 1338. Piers Langtoft's Chronicle as translated, illustrated, and improved by Mannyng was later transcribed and published in two volumes by Thomas Hearne in 1725.[2][3]
^Langtoft, Peter. "Chronicle of England, Part 3: The Reign of Edward I". Cambridge Digital Library. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
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parish covering all or much of the eleventh century Fee of Conisbrough. PeterLangtoft, writing in the 13th century, claimed that Egbert of Wessex had been...
used in the thirteenth century Proverbs of Hendyng. The chronicle of PeterLangtoft reports and quotes various tail rhyme popular songs on historical events...
blamed the French volte-face on Philip's brother Charles of Valois; PeterLangtoft's and Robert Mannyng's blamed Philip, Charles, and Robert II, count of...
2012 – 2013 Jake Leach 2017–2019 St John of Bridlington, English saint PeterLangtoft, who wrote a history of England in Anglo-Norman verse Robert of Bridlington...
restored by G.E.Street in 1870–72 and is Grade I listed. SE966711 St PeterLangtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire This was a restoration, by C. Hodgson Fowler...
of the 13th century the widely-read Anglo-Norman verse chronicle of PeterLangtoft, divided into three books, presented in its first book an adaptation...
turn, for Layamon's Brut, an alliterative Middle English poem, and PeterLangtoft's Chronicle. Historian Matthew Bennett, in an article entitled "Wace...
England, retrieved 7 September 2012 Historic England, "Church of St Peter, Langtoft (1083356)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 August...
by Thomas Hearne, in front matter to his edition of the chronicle of PeterLangtoft; from where in 1756 Thomas Birch picked it up as an authority on the...
crossed from Jedburgh, burning homes and farms in Northumberland. Pierre de Langtoft, an English chronicler, records: Mar, Ross, Menteith ... have destroyed...
JSTOR 10.1086/661955. S2CID 160558869. Langtoft, Peter (1866). Wright, Thomas (ed.). The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft. pp. 14–21. Peverley, Sarah; Simpson...
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In the Middle Ages the story in the chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft (Peter of Langtoft) written at the end of the thirteenth century was accepted as...
British history from the Anglo-Norman, before translating Piers Langtoft's (Peter of Langtoft) Chronicle for English and post-Conquest history.2 Mannyng was...
both the town of Bourne as well as The Deepings including the villages of Langtoft and Baston. The Lindsey Level, also known as the Black Sluice District...
renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes. Piers Langtoft speaks of her as "The erle's daughter, the fairest may of life". On 22...
of the Dean family, killing four people: two from Greatford, one from Langtoft and one from Market Deeping. Greatford Grade I listed church, built in...
present Majesty, for draining, dividing, allotting, and inclosing, Deeping, Langtoft, Baston, Spalding, Pinchbeck, and Cowbit commons, within the parts of Kesteven...
She is described as born in 1292 in the Annals of Wigmore, and Piers Langtoft agrees, claiming that she was 7 years old in 1299. The French chronicler...
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