Robert de Beaufeu
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.[lower-alpha 1][2]
Robert de Beaufeu | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | probably English |
| Occupation | secular canon |
| Known for | poet |
Life
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.[3] 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.
Works
He is said have written a work entitled Encomium Topographiæ, after hearing the Topographia Hiberniæ (c.1188) of Gerald of Wales read by the author at a festival at Oxford.[3][lower-alpha 2]
A poem in praise of ale, Versus de commendatione Cervisiæ, in a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, bears his name,[4] and has been argued as suggesting ("according to stereotypes established by Alcuin, Reginald of Canterbury, and Henry of Avranches") that he was an Englishman.[1]
Notes
- Rigg 2004.
- Cassells Latin Dictionary: Focus -i (m), fireplace, hearth, fire of funeral pile
- Thompson 1885, p. 36.
- Thompson 1885, p. 36 cite: Gg. vi. 42
References
- Rigg, A. G. (2004). "Beaufeu, Robert de (d. in or before 1219)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1850. (subscription required)
- Attribution
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. Endnotes:
- John Bale, iii. 36
- Works of Giraldus Cambr. (Rolls Series), volume i. 1861, page 72, volume iii. 1863, page 92
- Wright's Biography. British Lit. Anglo-Norman Period, 1846. page 469.
Further reading
- Wright, Thomas (1846). Biographia Britannica literaria; or, Biography of literary characters of Great Britain and Ireland, arranged in chronological order: Anglo Norman period. London: John W. Parker. p. 469.