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Alternate names/spellings: Geoffrey
Dates: 1136 - 1140 (These are the dates Gaimar, Geffrei flourished. )
Little is known about the background of Gaimar except that his work was commissioned by English nobility in Lincolnshire and Hampshire. He wrote in Anglo-Norman verse but, so far as we know, only histories, both ancient and legendary, and contemporary. Of these only the Estoire des Engleis survives.
For more information on Gaimar, see:
- "Wikipedia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Gaimar
- M. D. Legge, Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963)