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Wace, Robert c.1115-c.1183
Anglo-Norman poet

Born in Jersey, he studied in Paris, and was a canon of Bayeux (1160-70). He wrote several verse lives of the saints, but his main work was Roman de Brut (1155), a Norman-French version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, used by Layamon and Robert Mannyng. He also wrote the Roman de Rou (Rollo), an epic of the exploits of the Dukes of Normandy.

Bibliography: M Pela, Influence de Brut de Wace (1931)