Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1095–1155) was a Welsh cleric and author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain, c. 1136), which invented or elaborated the legend of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Arthurian court, drawing on Welsh tradition and his own invention.
Created the literary King Arthur; his Historia is the source from which all Arthurian legend flows.
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