Robert de Beaufeu
Robert de Beaufeu (died in or before 1219) (Latinised to "de Bello Fago" or "de Bello Foco", meaning "from a beautiful fireplace") was a secular canon of Salisbury and a minor poet. Life. Educated at the University of Oxford, he gained, at an early age, a reputation for learning, and became the friend of Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and other scholars. He was granted the prebend of Horton, near Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, where he built a hall house, part of which survives in the structure of the present 16th century Horton Court. Works. He is said  have written a work entitled "Encomium Topographiæ", after hearing the "Topographia Hiberniæ" (c.1188) of Gerald of Wales read by the author at a festival at Oxford. A poem in praise of ale, "", in a manuscript in the Cambridge University Library, bears his name, and has been argued as suggesting ("according to stereotypes established by Alcuin, Reginald of Canterbury, and Henry of Avranches") that he was an Englishman.