Gilles De Roye

(Lat. Egidius de Roya or Roia), a French chronicler and theologian, was born at Roye, Picardy. While very young he entered the ranks of the Cistercians, and was sent to Paris to complete his studies. He received the degree of doctor of theology, and taught for nineteen years in various colleges of the order of St. Bernard. He was then appointed abbot of Royanmont, Picardy. At the age of sixty he resigned these functions, and retired to the convent of the Dunes, Belgium, where he remained eighteen years, devoting his time to meditation and study. He died at the abbey of Sparmaille, near Bruges, in 1478. He wrote, Opus Vastum Chronodronmi seu Chronici, an abridgment of the history of John Brandon, a monk of Dunes, remaining in manuscript. Gilles de Roye carried it down to 1463, and it was continued by Adrian of Budt, of the same convent, down to 1479. Andrew Schot discovered it about twenty years later, and it was published by Sweert (Frankfort, 1620). He also left some commentaries upon the Master of Sentences. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.