Thomas Elmham
Thomas Elmham (d. c. 1420) was an English chronicler, was probably born at North Elmham in Norfolk. He became a Benedictine monk at Canterbury, and then joining the Cluniacs, was prior of Lenton Priory, near Nottingham; he was chaplain to Henry V, whom he accompanied to France in 1415, being present at the Battle of Agincourt.
Elmham wrote a history of the monastery of St. Augustine at Canterbury, which has been edited by C. Hardwick for the Rolls Series (1858); and a Liber metricus de Henrico V, edited by C. A. Cole in the Memorials of Henry V (1858). It is very probable that Elmham wrote the famous Gesta Henrici Quinti, which is the best authority for the life of Henry V from his accession to 1416. This work, often referred to as the chaplain's life, and thought by some to have been written by Jean de Bordin, has been published for the English Historical Society by B. Williams (1850). Elmham, however, did not write the Vita et Gesta Henrici V, which was attributed to him by Thomas Hearne and others.
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