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Wikipedia, 16 October 2017 (John Barbour (poet); (c.1320-13 March 1395); birthplace is not known, though Aberdeenshire and Galloway have made rival claims; died, probably in Aberdeen; was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots; His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus (The Bruce); is known to have written a number of other works, but other titles definitely ascribed to his authorship, such as The Stewartis Oryginalle (Genealogy of the Stewarts) and The Brut (Brutus), are now lost; his principal patron was Robert II; studied in Oxford and Paris; was latterly Archdeacon of the Kirk of St Machar in Aberdeen)