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GILLES DE ROYE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 22 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GILLES DE ROYE , or EcIDIus DE ROYA (d. 1478), Flemish chronicler, was See also:

born probably at See also:Montdidier, and became a Cistercian See also:monk. He was afterwards See also:professor of See also:theology in See also:Paris and See also:abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at .Asnieressur-See also:Oise, retiring about 1458 to the See also:convent of Notre See also:Dame See also:des See also:Dunes, near See also:Furnes, and devoting his See also:time to study. Gilles wrote the Chronicon Dunense or Annales Belgici, a resume and continuation of the See also:work of another monk, See also:Jean See also:Brandon (d. 1428), which deals with the See also:history of See also:Flanders, and also with events in See also:Germany, See also:Italy and See also:England from 792 to 1478. The See also:Chronicle was published by F. R. Sweert in the Rerum Belgicarum annales (See also:Frankfort, 1620) ; and the earlier See also:part of it by C. B. Kervyn de Lettenhove in the Chroniques relatives d l'histoire de la Belgique (See also:Brussels, 1870).

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