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Peter of Blois
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Peter of Blois (blwä), 1135?–1203?, French writer. He was educated in law and theology. From 1167 to 1169 he was tutor to King William II of Sicily. He went (c.1173) to England, where he served Henry II and the archbishop of Canterbury in secretarial and diplomatic capacities. He was later secretary to Henry II's widow, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Much of his historically invaluable correspondence survives.
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Only the late twelfth-/early thirteenth-century Frenchman Pierre de Blois and the fourteenth-century German Nicolaus de Dybin statistically match the popularity of Italian authors such Guido Faba, Lorenzo di Aquileia, Tommaso di Capua, and the humanists Gasparino Barzizza and Agostino Dati.
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