Robert de Beaufeu | |
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Nationality | probably English |
Occupation | secular canon |
Known for | poet |
Robert de Beaufeu (died in or before 1219) ( Latinised to de Bello Fago or de Bello Foco, meaning "from a beautiful fireplace") was a secular canon of Salisbury and a minor poet.
Educated at the University of Oxford, he gained, at an early age, a reputation for learning, and became the friend of Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and other scholars. He was granted the prebend of Horton, near Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, where he built a hall house, part of which survives in the structure of the present 16th century Horton Court.
He is said have written a work entitled Encomium topographiae, after hearing the Topographia Hiberniae (c.1188) of Gerald of Wales read by the author at a festival at Oxford. [1] His authorship of this piece depends on Gerald of Wales's self-serving story reporting the praise that Robert gave to Gerald's Topographia Hiberniae. [2]
A poem in praise of ale, Versus de commendatione cervisiae, in a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.6.42, bears his name. [3] [4] It has been argued as suggesting ("according to stereotypes established by Alcuin, Reginald of Canterbury, and Henry of Avranches") that he was an Englishman. [2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Thompson, Edward Maunde (1885). "
Beaufeu, Robert de". In
Stephen, Leslie (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 04. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 36.
Robert de Beaufeu | |
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Nationality | probably English |
Occupation | secular canon |
Known for | poet |
Robert de Beaufeu (died in or before 1219) ( Latinised to de Bello Fago or de Bello Foco, meaning "from a beautiful fireplace") was a secular canon of Salisbury and a minor poet.
Educated at the University of Oxford, he gained, at an early age, a reputation for learning, and became the friend of Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and other scholars. He was granted the prebend of Horton, near Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, where he built a hall house, part of which survives in the structure of the present 16th century Horton Court.
He is said have written a work entitled Encomium topographiae, after hearing the Topographia Hiberniae (c.1188) of Gerald of Wales read by the author at a festival at Oxford. [1] His authorship of this piece depends on Gerald of Wales's self-serving story reporting the praise that Robert gave to Gerald's Topographia Hiberniae. [2]
A poem in praise of ale, Versus de commendatione cervisiae, in a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, MS Gg.6.42, bears his name. [3] [4] It has been argued as suggesting ("according to stereotypes established by Alcuin, Reginald of Canterbury, and Henry of Avranches") that he was an Englishman. [2]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain: Thompson, Edward Maunde (1885). "
Beaufeu, Robert de". In
Stephen, Leslie (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 04. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 36.