Nigel de Longchamps
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Nigel de Longchamps is the author of the Speculum stultorum, a late 12th century Latin satirical poem, in which a foolish ass, Brunellus (or Burnellus) goes in search of a way of lengthening his tail, and the Contra Curiales et Officiales Clericos. He is known to have been a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, from 1186 to 1193, and perhaps earlier if his claim to have known St Thomas (Beckett) is to be believed. Several other Latin poems from a thirteenth-century manuscript are attributed to him. He died c.1200.
He is also known as Nigel Wireker, a surname attributed to him by John Bale.