Roman de Rou ("Romance of Rollo") is a verse chronicle by Wace in Norman covering the history of the Dukes of Normandy from the time of Rollo of Normandy...

born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy (he tells us in the Roman de Rou that he was taken as a child to Caen), ending his career as Canon of...

Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge. Alfred Foulet, reviewing Fahlin in Modern Language Notes 70.4 (April 1955), p 313. Wace, Maistre Wace's Roman de Rou et...

baptismal name Robert. A variant spelling, Rou, is used in the 12th-century Norman French verse chronicle Roman de Rou, which was compiled by Wace and commissioned...

Guillaume le duc, Guillaume le rois: extraits du Roman de Rou de Wace, Centre de Publications de l'Université de Caen, 1987, pp. 16–17. this coming from a Middle...

the Knights of the Round Table. It first appeared in literature in the Roman de Rou chronicle by Wace in 1160 and today is most commonly identified as Paimpont...

Press, Berkeley, 1988), p. 80 The History of the Norman People: Wace's Roman de Rou. Boydell and Brewer Incorporated. 2006. Dudo,Historia Normannorum The...

Wace (1837). Master Wace, his chronicle of the Norman conquest from the Roman de Rou. Translated by Taylor, Edgar. London: Pickering. pp. 7–8. Douglas, David...

said Conqueror"). As is stated by Wace in the Roman de Rou, Humphrey derived from "Bohun" in Normandy: De Bohun le Vieil Onfrei ("from Bohun the old Humphrey")...

van Houts, 1995, vol. 2, pp. 216–219, 246–251, 274–277), and Wace, Roman de Rou, pt. iii, lines 10173–10262 (ed. A. Holden, 1973, vol. 2, pp. 262–266)...

was achieved by the usual methods: Roman roads and a policy of urbanisation. Classicists mention many Gallo-Roman villas and archeology found their traces...

in the Roman de Rou (c. 1170): The story of Taillefer is told by Geoffrey Gaimar, Henry of Huntingdon, William of Malmesbury and in the Carmen de Hastingae...

Roman de Rou et des ducs de Normandie". BnF Gallica. p. 362. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2016. Li Barunz de...

Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (Song of the Battle of Hastings), a poem, said to be by Bishop Guy of Amiens and written shortly after 1066. Roman de Rou (The...

instead staying behind to help govern Normandy. According to Wace's Roman de Rou, however, he commanded the Norman right flank at Hastings, returning...

in Jersey. He is the earliest known Jersey writer, authoring Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou, among others. Some believe him to be the earliest Jèrriais...

word was still current in the 12th century, when it was used in the Roman de Rou. Marriage more danico ("in the Danish manner"), that is, without any...

The Matter of Britain (French: matière de Bretagne) is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany...

recorded as Everwic (modern Norman Évèroui) in works such as Wace's Roman de Rou and as Euruic in the Domesday Book. Jórvík, meanwhile, gradually reduced...

(Sanskrit) by Jayanaka (1191–1192) Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (Old French) Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou by Wace (Old French) Poem of Almería...

word was still current in the 12th century, when it was used in the Roman de Rou by Wace. Another word mentioned in the same charter is hanfare (or hainfare...

have originated in Bec-de-Mortagne, Pays-de-Caux, Normandy, about five miles south-east of Fécamp, according to the Roman de Rou poem written by Wace (c...

(also spelt Say) family is an ancient one. According to the Roman de Rou, a "le sire de Saye" took part in the Norman conquest in 1087, after which they...

to the jarl of the Normans, William I (v.927-942). A later source, le Roman de Rou, explains that Anslech supported William when Rioulf began an important...

Amiens (1066) William of Malmesbury (–1127) Ordericus Vitalis (–1141) Roman de Rou (–1106) William of Jumièges (–1137) William of Poitiers (–1068) Florence...

in 'kit' form.[citation needed] According to Bouet, Wace's epic poem Roman de Rou, verses 6,516–6,526, states: "They took out of the ship beams of wood...

battlefield to Waltham for burial. This version is supported by the Roman de Rou, written by Wace in the 1160s. The final and most detailed medieval account...

rear-guard of the army. Geoffrey Gaimar's L'Estoire des Engles and Wace's Roman de Rou both assert Alan Rufus's presence as Breton commander in the battle,...

the Gallo-Roman era as it was at the crossroads of ancient routes from Vieux to Avranches and from Bayeux to Condé-sur-Noireau. The Roman de Rou by Wace...

Charlemagne, the early part up to 1189 being a prose version of Wace's Roman de Rou. The sources of the continuation from 1189 onwards have not been established...