Chronicles of the Crusades

I d the custotly of wine in his monastery; otllers from tll
German wor(Is Wein am1 S~U~UI,wllicli would imply tiI
pling. Others, npin, suppo~e tlmnt he may have bcen su
perin tentlent of tl~c vineyard, tbc w ine-pressing, preserving
8 . Pits, somcwl~nt in confirnmntion of this latter notior
citcs n XB. whicl~ he :.;Lwin C~IISCollege, CmnLri+c
m~,itten by onc G-eoKmy, on preserving wines and fruit:
nncl on grafting.
TYhtevcr mrlny be the truc derivation of his name, GeoKre
is generally believed to have Ileen all Englisliman by birtl
but of a Normnu family. Pis writings are nurncrons, an
scvernl of them poetical. The following are the principal :-
On preserving Wines, Fruits, &c. (De Vinis, fructibus, &c., conse
vnndis).
Itill-rarium Regis Anglorum Riclinrdi, et oliorum in Terrnm Nieri
solymorum. ' To the Emperor Henry, nbout liberating King Richard (Ad Caesaren
&c.).
Mo~l~ly on the Death of King Richnrd (Monoclia, Sc.).
To William Lonl;chan~ps, Bishop of Ely, and Cllancellor (Ad Wi
belmum, &c.).
Of the State of the Roman Court (De Statu Curi~
Manual or I-lilndboolc (Encl~iritlion).
On New Poetry (D., Poelrin Nova).
011ltlretoric (De Arte dicendi).
On Ethics (D2Rebns Etiiicis).
Romance).
But of all his worlis, the most irnpo~tant and intrins
d l y valunblo is his History of the Third Crusade, undc
Riellard the First of En;*Inud nnd Philip Augustus of Fnnca
It is the only Chronicle wriiten by an eye-witness, of tho:
furious assaults wl~icl~ the arllly of Sdndin made upon tl
Christians, and of thc firmncss with which the lion-hearte
Richard witl~stood and repolsecl tllem. If the reader taliea tf
trouble of compnring Geoffrey's f~lll and interesting :.cc;our
of tllc CII .;(if: wit11 tlli~t of ltic;h:~~.il 01: Devizes, lie will pe