《不列顛諸王史》（；；原名：；）是蒙茅斯的杰弗里在1136年左右創作的一本歷史書，以年代先後順序記載了兩千年裡出現的不列顛諸王的生平。它是不列顛傳說的主要源頭之一。
直到16世紀，歷史學家還把它當做信史，但此書內容多為杜撰，只是作為一本文學作品頗有價值。李爾王的故事最早見於本書，而亞瑟王傳奇的流行和此書不無關係。
來源
蒙茅斯的杰弗里宣稱此書譯自一部古老的文獻，這部文獻則是牛津的沃爾特給他的，但現代歷史學家並不認為這是事實。此書可能的來源包括吉爾達斯的《不列顛的毀滅》（De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae，6世紀） 、比德的《英吉利教會史》（8世紀）、《不列顛人的歷史》（9世紀，作者可能是内尼厄斯）、《威尔士编年史》（10世紀，作者不明）、塔利埃辛的詩和威爾士傳說《基爾夫與奧爾溫》（11-12世紀）。
參考文獻
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- John Jay Parry and Robert Caldwell. Geoffrey of Monmouth in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959.
- Brynley F. Roberts, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Welsh Historical Tradition, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 20 (1976), 29-40.
- J. S. P. Tatlock. The Legendary History of Britain: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and its early vernacular versions. University of California Press. Berkeley. 1950.
- Michael A. Faletra, ed., The History of the Kings of Britain (Broadview Press, 2008)
- N. Wright, ed., The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 1, Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS. 568 (Cambridge, 1984)
- N. Wright, ed., The historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 2, The first variant version : a critical edition (Cambridge, 1988)
- J. C. Crick, The historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 3, A summary catalogue of the manuscripts (Cambridge, 1989)
- J. C. Crick, The historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 4, Dissemination and reception in the later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1991)
- J. Hammer, ed., Historia regum Britanniae. A variant version edited from manuscripts (Cambridge, MA, 1951)
- A. Griscom and J. R. Ellis, ed., The Historia regum Britanniæ of Geoffrey of Monmouth with contributions to the study of its place in early British history (London, 1929)
- M. D. Reeve, 'The transmission of the Historia regum Britanniae ', in Journal of Medieval Latin 1 (1991), 73—117
- Edmond Faral, La légende Arthurienne: études et documents, 3 vols. (Paris, 1929)
- R. W. Leckie, The passage of dominion : Geoffrey of Monmouth and the periodization of insular history in the twelfth century (Toronto, 1981)
外部連接
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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=FUoMAAAAIAAJ 原文]，Google Books
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=LBw2AAAAMAAJ 拉丁原文]，Google Books
- [http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00001-00025-00005 Historia regum Britanniae]，Cambridge Digital Library
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