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Geoffrey of Breuil

Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois was a French Benedictine chronicler and abbot. Trained at the Beneditine abbey of Saint-Martial in Limoges, Geoffroy composed his Chroniques which trace the major European events from 994-1184, including much crusading history. His treatment of the Cathar belief helps him become the first writer to use the term Albigensian

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