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Richard of Cirencester (Latin: Ricardus de Cirencestria; before 1340–1400) was a cleric and minor historian of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster. He was highly famed in the 18th and 19th century as the author of The Description of Britain before it was proved to have been a later forgery in 1846.

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Richard of Cirencester

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Richard of Cirencester (Latin: Ricardus de Cirencestria; before 1340–1400) was a cleric and minor historian of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster. He...

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Cirencester

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Gloucestershire, England, 80 miles (130 km) west of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames. It is the eighth largest settlement...

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Ivar the Boneless

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Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life Of Alfred, Geoffrey Of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius And Richard Of Cirencester. Kessinger Publishing, LLC....

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Londinium

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Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and Richard of Cirencester. Henry G. Bohn (London), 1848...

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Attacotti

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Geography of Strabo, vol. I, London: George Bell & Sons, p. 464 Sylvanus Urban (Oct 1846), "Mr. Wex's dissertation on Richard of Cirencester", The Gentleman's...

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The Description of Britain

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point, his Richard had become conflated with the historical Richard of Cirencester. The text was treated as a legitimate and major source of information...

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Charles Bertram

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Stukeley preferred instead to identify Bertram's "Richard of Westminster" with Richard of Cirencester, who had lived at Westminster in the late 14th century...

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Ragnar Lodbrok

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Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life Of Alfred, Geoffrey Of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius And Richard Of Cirencester. Kessinger Publishing, LLC....

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Pennines

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cited by Redmonds Hussey, Arthur (1853), "A Renewed Examination of 'Richard of Cirencester'", in Cave, Edward (ed.), The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XXXIX...

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Cirencester Deer Park School

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Cirencester Deer Park School is a secondary school with academy status in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. It is at the top of Tetbury Hill, an area...

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Pope Eleutherius

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and Richard of Cirencester. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1848. Rees, William Jenkins (1840). The liber Landavensis, Llyfr Teilo; or the ancient register of the...

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William Stukeley

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1757 as An Account of Richard of Cirencester, Monk of Westminster, and of his Works, which reproduced the map but not the text of the original manuscript...

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Celtic Christianity

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Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and Richard of Cirencester. Henry G. Bohn (London), 1848...

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Hedeby

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Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British history, Gildas, Nennius, together with the spurious Chronicle of Richard of Cirencester. London: G...

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Cirencester Abbey

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Cirencester Abbey was an abbey, dedicated to St Mary, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. It was founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1117 on the site of...

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Royal Agricultural University

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formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845, it was the first agricultural...

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Deruvian

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Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and Richard of Cirencester. Henry G. Bohn (London), 1848...

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Roman Roads in Britain

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autumn 1903. Codrington deplored the impact of the spurious Itinerary attributed to Richard of Cirencester by the eighteenth century forger Charles Bertram...

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Damnonii

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 403–404 Bertram, Charles (1757), The Description of Britain, Translated from Richard of Cirencester, London: J. White and Co (published 1809), pp. 55–59...

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Speculum Historiale

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('Historial Mirror of the Deeds of the Kings of England') by Richard of Cirencester The third section of the Speculum Maius by Vincent of Beauvais This disambiguation...

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Gilbert Dyer

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and uses of letters … a critical disquisition on every station of Richard of Cirencester and Antoninus in Britain. To which is added Richard's original...

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John Allen Giles

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Nennius, and Richard of Cirencester. Later (posthumous) editions allowed that the "translation [of Nennius] is substantially that of the Rev. W. Gunn...

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Selgovae

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Hatcher, Henry (ed.), The Description of Britain, Translated from Richard of Cirencester, London: J. White and Co (published 1809) Cunliffe, Barry W. (1971)...

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