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'''Peter Langtoft''', also known as '''Peter of Langtoft''' ({{langx|fro|Piers de Langtoft}}; {{langx|fr|Pierre de Langtoft}}; died {{c.|1305}}), was an [[Historians in England during the Middle Ages|English historian and chronicler]] who took his name from the small village of [[Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire|Langtoft]] in the [[East Riding of Yorkshire]].

Langtoft was an [[Canons regular#Canons Regular of Saint Augustine|Augustinian]] canon regular at [[Bridlington]] Priory who wrote a history of England in [[Anglo-Norman literature|Anglo-Norman verse]], popularly known as Langtoft's Chronicle. The history narrates the history of England from the legendary founding of Britain by [[Brutus of Troy|Brutus]] to the death of [[King Edward I]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Langtoft|first1=Peter|title=Chronicle of England, Part 3: The Reign of Edward I|url=http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-00001-00001/664|website=Cambridge Digital Library|accessdate=16 August 2016}}</ref> The first part of Langtoft's [[chronicle]] is translated from [[Wace]]'s {{lang|fr|[[Roman de Brut]]}} ("Tale of Brutus"), and the second part is drawn from a number of sources, including [[Henry of Huntingdon]]'s {{lang|la|Historia Anglorum}} ("History of the English"). The third part is widely considered to be original work by Langtoft, and he includes in it details not recorded elsewhere such as the fate of [[Gwenllian of Wales|Gwenllian]], daughter of [[Llywelyn ap Gruffudd]], Prince of Wales. On the whole, the chronicle is virulently anti-Scottish and famously contains nine 'songs', in both [[Anglo-Norman language|Anglo-Norman]] and [[Middle English]], supposedly capturing the taunts between English and Scottish soldiers during the Anglo-Scottish conflicts of the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

Langtoft's Chronicle was the source of the second part of the [[Mannyng's Chronicle|Chronicle]] of [[Robert Mannyng]], also known as [[Robert of Brunne]], completed around 1338. Piers Langtoft's Chronicle as translated, illustrated, and improved by Mannyng was later transcribed and published in two volumes by [[Thomas Hearne (antiquarian)|Thomas Hearne]] in 1725.{{sfnp|Hearne|1725}}{{sfnp|Hearne|1810}}

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* {{citation |editor-last=Hearne |editor-first=Thomas |editor-link=Thomas Hearne (antiquarian) |series=Vol. I |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmgIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 |title=Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, (as Illustrated and Improv'd by Robert of Brunne) from the Death of Cadwalader to the end of K. Edward the First's Reign... |location=Oxford |publisher=Sheldonian Theater |date=1725 |author1-last=Langtoft |author1-first=Peter |author-link=Peter Langtoft |author2=[[Robert Mannyng]] |display-authors=0 |ref={{sfnref|Hearne|1725}} }}.
* {{citation |editor-last=Hearne |editor-first=Thomas |editor-link=Thomas Hearne (antiquarian) |author-last=Langtoft |author-first=Peter |author-link=Peter Langtoft |author2=[[Robert Mannyng]] |display-authors=0 |ref={{harvid|Hearne|1810}} |title=The Works of Thomas Hearne, M.A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RyEJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA231 |series=Vol. IV: ''The Second Volume of Peter Langtoft's Chronicle'' |date=1810 |location=London |publisher=Samuel Bagster }}.
* {{citation |editor-first=Jean-Claude |editor-last=Thiolier |title=Édition Critique et Commentée de Pierre de Langtoft, Le Règne d'Édouard Ier |language=fr |trans-title=Critical and Annotated Edition of Peter de Langtoft, The Reign of Edward I |location=Paris |publisher=Créteil CELIMA, University of Paris |date=1989 |author1-last=Langtoft |author1-first=Peter |author-link=Peter Langtoft |display-authors=0 }}.
* {{citation |editor-first=T. |editor-last=Wright |title=The Chronicle of Pierre de Langtoft |location=London |series=Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevii Scriptores |date=1859 |publisher= |author1-last=Langtoft |author1-first=Peter |author-link=Peter Langtoft |display-authors=0 }}.
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* {{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16037|title=Langtoft, Peter (d. in or after 1305)|last=Thiolier|first=J. C.|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/16037|accessdate=2009-10-14}} 
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* Manuscript of Langtoft's Chronicle in the British Library: [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8812&CollID=16&NStart=200102 British Library Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, Royal 20 A II]
* [http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-GG-00001-00001/664 The Reign of Edward I], a chronicle written by Langtoft that is contained in a ''Trilingual compendium of texts'' in [[Cambridge Digital Library]]

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