Richard of Cirencester
Medieval monk and historian, victim of historical forgery / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard of Cirencester (Latin: Ricardus de Cirencestria; before 1340–1400) was a cleric and minor historian of the Benedictine abbey at Westminster. He was highly famed in the 18th and 19th century as the author of The Description of Britain before it was proved to have been a later forgery in 1846.