Note 80 — BOOK II[75]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Robert Wace, a native of Jersey, author of the Brut d'Angleterre or Artus de Bretagne, the Roman du Rou (Rollo Duke of Normandy), and the Chronique ascendante des ducs de Normandie. He was reading-clerk to Henry I. and Henry II., later a canon of Bayeux, and died in England circa 1184.—T.