Geoffrey of Monmouth Cleric, writer, tale collator 1095-1155 Geoffrey of Monmouth, Galfridus Arturus as he was known in his day, was born on 1095 in Monmouth, Wales. He may have served at Monmouth Priory, then from 1129 he lived at Oxford where he was probably a secular canon at St George’s College. He was ordained as a priest in 1152 in Westminster and 10 days later consecrated as Bishop of St…