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Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois was a 12th-century French
chronicle A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and ...
r, trained at the
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abbey of Saint-Martial of
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, the site of a great early library. Geoffroy became abbot at Vigeois (1170–1184) where he composed his ''Chroniques'' which trace in detail some great local families, often Geoffroy's forebears and kin, while relating events happening from 994 to 1184: the fiery convulsive sickness, (actually
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from a fungus or
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of wheat), the preparations for the
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, reports of combats in the
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, the spread of
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beliefs (writing in 1181, he was the first to use the term ''Albigensians''), all the while unconsciously revealing the preoccupations and manners of the times.


Bibliography

*Geoffrey of Vigeois. "Chronica Gaufredi coenobitae monasterii D. Martialis Lemovicensis, ac prioris Vosiensis coenobii." In: * ''La chronique de Geoffroi de Breuil, prieur de Vigeois'', éd. Pierre Botineau et Jean-Loup Lemaître, trad. Bernadette Barrière, mise en forme et annotations, Stéphane Lafaye, Jean-Marie Allard, Jean-François Boyer, Robert Chanaud, Catherine Faure, Luc Ferrand, Évelyne Proust, Christian Rémy et Étienne Rouziès, Paris, éditions de Boccard, 2021 (Société de l’Histoire de France).


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History of the Romanesque Abbey of Vigeois (French)His chronicle, in Latin, on Gallica
{{DEFAULTSORT:Breuil, Geoffroy du French Benedictines French chroniclers French abbots 12th-century French historians 12th-century French Roman Catholic priests Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown French male writers 12th-century Latin writers