John Capgrave

1393-1464

Augustinian friar from Norfolk whose works include saints' lives, biblical commentaries, theological treatises, the Nova Legenda Angliae (see 'De Santo Joseph ab Arimathia'), and the De Illustribus Henricis. He is the author of the English Abbreuiacion of Cronicles (1462-63), drawn primarily from the Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum of Martinus Polonus and the St. Albans chronicles of Thomas Walsingham.

Capgrave gives a brief account of Arthur's conquests and of his being wounded and taken to Avalon, and he also tells of the twelfth-century discovery of Arthur's body at Glastonbury and of Edward III's interest in the Round Table.