Gilles de Roye
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Gilles de Roye
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Gilles de Roye was a Flemish chronicler. He was probably born at Montdidier in the modern French department of Somme, and became a Cistercian monk. He was afterwards professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monastery of Royaumont at Asnières-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes at Koksijde, near Veurne, and devoting his time to study. Gilles wrote the Chronicon Dunense or Annales Belgici, a résumé and continuation of the work of another monk, Jean Brandon,
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