AS SEEN ON TV: GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH

GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH

AS SEEN IN:
'Merlin'

AS PLAYED BY:
Michael Cronin

Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100 – c. 1155) was a British clergyman and one of the major figures in the development of British history and the popularity of tales of King Arthur. He is best known for his chronicle Historia Regum Britanniae ("History of the Kings of Britain"), widely popular in its day and translated to various other languages from its original Latin.

Geoffrey is traditionally said to have been a Welshman, born somewhere in the region of Monmouth around 1100, though one or both of his parents may have come from Brittany. His father's name was apparently Arthur, a man who would perhaps have told his son stories of his Royal namesake from an early age.
[from Wikipedia]

However in the alternate TV dimension in which 'Merlin' and his version of Camelot can be found, Geoffrey of Monmouth was a contemporary of the legends he would later write about. And in Camelot, he served as the Royal Genealogist, so he was still writing about the Royal Family of Pendragon.....

BCnU!