# Perot de Garbalei

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**Perot de Garbalei**, flourished circa 1300, is only known as the author of one poem. Nothing is known about his life. The 935 verses were written in the French language. They describe the geography of the world. All the geographic information is found in well-known earlier Latin works.[1]

Perot states that he "read a very learned book in [Latin](/source/Latin) which many [clerics](/source/Cleric) said could not be translated into [vernacular](/source/Vernacular) [rhyme](/source/Rhyme)". He took up the challenge as he was confident of obtaining the gratitude of both clerics and [laymen](/source/Laymen), stating that *"Purceo s'en est par foi/Perot de Garbalei/Entremis, pur aver/Le gre e le voler/E de clers e de lais"*.

On the basis of his name, he may have been from a location called Galbally, i.e. if Garbalei is a variant of Galbalei. Several villages or townships in south Wexford bear the name Galbally. As he was a translator from Latin, he may have been a cleric - there was a [Franciscan](/source/Franciscan) house at Galbally. The *Divisiones Mundi* is a poem of 935 six-syllable lines in couplets, and a concise survey of world geography, its sources being *De Philosophia Mundi* and *De Imagine Mundi*.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["French writing in Ireland" **in** *Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia* (2005:Routledge)](http://www.epubbud.com/read.php?g=V2BJW4TZ).

- *Hiberno-Norman literature*, Evelyn Mullally, in *Settlement and Society in Medieval Ireland: Studies presented to [F.X. Martin](/source/F.X._Martin)*, Dublin, 1988.

v t e Hiberno-Latin culture after 1169 Authors John Clyn Henry Crumpe Henry Fitzsimon John of Fintona Malachy of Ireland Master Patrick of Ireland Doncanus Hibernus Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh Niall Ó Glacáin John Lynch (Gratianus Lucius) Francis O'Molloy Conor O'Mahony Perot de Garbalei Petrus de Ibernia Phillip Norreys Richard FitzRalph Simon of Ireland Symon Semeonis Thomas of Ireland Ailbe Ua Maíl Mhuaidh James Ussher John Whitehead (theologian) See also: Hiberno-Latin to 1169

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