Medieval monk and historian, victim of historical forgery
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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RichardofCirencester (Latin: Ricardus de Cirencestria; before 1340–1400) was a cleric and minor historian of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster. He...
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...
Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life Of Alfred, Geoffrey Of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius And RichardOfCirencester. Kessinger Publishing, LLC....
Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and RichardofCirencester. Henry G. Bohn (London), 1848...
Geography of Strabo, vol. I, London: George Bell & Sons, p. 464 Sylvanus Urban (Oct 1846), "Mr. Wex's dissertation on RichardofCirencester", The Gentleman's...
point, his Richard had become conflated with the historical RichardofCirencester. The text was treated as a legitimate and major source of information...
Stukeley preferred instead to identify Bertram's "Richardof Westminster" with RichardofCirencester, who had lived at Westminster in the late 14th century...
Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life Of Alfred, Geoffrey Of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius And RichardOfCirencester. Kessinger Publishing, LLC....
cited by Redmonds Hussey, Arthur (1853), "A Renewed Examination of 'RichardofCirencester'", in Cave, Edward (ed.), The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XXXIX...
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...
and RichardofCirencester. London: Henry G. Bohn. 1848. Rees, William Jenkins (1840). The liber Landavensis, Llyfr Teilo; or the ancient register of the...
1757 as An Account ofRichardofCirencester, Monk of Westminster, and of his Works, which reproduced the map but not the text of the original manuscript...
Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and RichardofCirencester. Henry G. Bohn (London), 1848...
Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British history, Gildas, Nennius, together with the spurious Chronicle ofRichardofCirencester. London: G...
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...
formerly the Royal Agricultural College, is a public university in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England. Established in 1845, it was the first agricultural...
Ethelwerd's Chronicle, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and RichardofCirencester. Henry G. Bohn (London), 1848...
autumn 1903. Codrington deplored the impact of the spurious Itinerary attributed to RichardofCirencester by the eighteenth century forger Charles Bertram...
403–404 Bertram, Charles (1757), The Description of Britain, Translated from RichardofCirencester, London: J. White and Co (published 1809), pp. 55–59...
('Historial Mirror of the Deeds of the Kings of England') by RichardofCirencester The third section of the Speculum Maius by Vincent of Beauvais This disambiguation...
and uses of letters … a critical disquisition on every station ofRichardofCirencester and Antoninus in Britain. To which is added Richard's original...
Hatcher, Henry (ed.), The Description of Britain, Translated from RichardofCirencester, London: J. White and Co (published 1809) Cunliffe, Barry W. (1971)...