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| title = Historia Regum Britanniae
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| original title = De gestis Britonum
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| author = Geoffrey of Monmouth
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| elevator pitch = The History of the Kings of Britain
| genre = History, Historical fiction
| publication date = circa 1136
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{{quote|''"A writer has emerged who, in order to expiate the faults of these Britons, weaves the most ridiculous figments of imagination around them, extolling them with the most impudent vanity above the virtues of the Macedonians and the Romans..."''|'''William of Newburgh''', ''History of English Affairs'' (c. 1198 AD)}}
 
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