WACE BIOGRAPHY
WACE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
WACE ( fl. 1170). —Chronicler, born in Jersey, and ed. at Caen, was influenced by the Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth ( q.v. ), and based upon it a French metrical romance, Brut . Later, at the command of Henry II., he rewrote with additions a chronicle of the life of William the Conqueror and entitled it Roman de Rou .