Gervase of CANTERBURY

Gervase of CANTERBURY, a monk who wrote a painstaking and fairly trustworthy chronicle of the reigns of Stephen, Henry II., and Richard I., and also a history of the archbishops of Canterbury down to Hubert Walter. These works are valuable especially as elucidating the contemporary relations between church and state, though Gervase seems to have been animated throughout by a persistent dislike to the House of Anjou. The former was edited by Bishop Stubbs for the Rolls series (2 vols. 1879-80).