Gilles de Roye (or Egidius de Roya) (died 1478) was a
Flemish chronicler. He was probably born at
Montdidier in the modern
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, and became a
Cistercian
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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 (Ten Duinen) 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 (d. 1428), which deals with the history of
Flanders, and also with events in
Germany,
Italy and
England from 792 to 1478.
The ''Chronicle'' was published by FR Sweert in the ''Rerum Belgicarum annales'' (Frankfort, 1620); and the earlier part of it by
C.B. Kervyn de Lettenhove in the ''Chroniques relatives a l'histoire de la Belgique'' (Brussels, 1870).
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1478 deaths
Historians of Belgium
French chroniclers
15th-century French historians
Year of birth unknown