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3 unusual facts about Hue de Rotelande


Hue de Rotelande

Gilbert de Monmouth Fitz Baderon, a grandson of Gilbert Fitz Richard, was his patron.

A sixteenth century translation The Life of Ipomydon was made by Robert Copland and printed by Wynkyn de Worde.

Protheselaus

Protheselaus is a verse romance composed in Anglo-Norman by Hue de Rotelande at the end of the 12th century.


Romance of Thebes

From the Roman de Thebes also were possibly derived the Ipomedon and its sequel Protheselaus, two romans d'aventures written about the end of the 12th century by Hue de Rotelande, an Anglo-Norman poet who lived in Credenhill, near Hereford.


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