Fitzgilbert, Constance (fl. 12th c.)
Fitzgilbert, Constance (fl. 12th c.)
British arts patron. Name variations: Custance FitzGilbert. Fl. around 1150; m. Ralph FitzGilbert.
Lincolnshire noblewoman who gave Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of England to a clerk, Gaimar, to translate into French (Gaimar was the 1st to render Anglo-Norman verse chronicle into vernacular).
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