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Wace , c.1100–1174, Norman-French poet of Jersey. King Henry II made him canon of Bayeux. His Roman de Brut (1155) is a long, rhymed chronicle of British history based on the Historia of Geoffrey of Monmouth . Wace's account is much more personal, vigorous, and dramatic than Geoffrey's. The Brut of Layamon is an English adaptation of Wace's chronicle; both were important in the development of the Arthurian legend . Wace's Roman de Rou is a chronicle of the dukes of Normandy and contains a famous description of the battle of Hastings.

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Wace (c.1100–after 1171), wrote in French verse of 15,000 short couplets the Roman de Brut (or Geste des Bretons), completed 1155 and dedicated to Eleanor of Aquitaine, which is based on Geoffrey Of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. This work was the principal source of Laзamon's Brut. He also wrote a Roman de Rou (i.e. Rollo) (or Geste des Normands) a history of the dukes of Normandy in the course of which he provided some apparently autobiographical information. He was made a canon of Bayeux by Henry II.

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