GEOFFREY THE BAKER (d. c. 136o), English chron icler, is also called Walter of Swinbroke, and was probably a secular clerk at Swinbrook in Oxfordshire. He wrote a Chronicon Angliae temporibus Edwardi II. et Edwardi III., which deals with the history of England from 1303 to 1356. From the beginning until about 1324 this work is based upon Adam Murimuth's Con tinuatio chronicarum, but after this date it contains information not found elsewhere, and closes with a good account of the battle of Poitiers. The author obtained his knowledge about the last days of Edward II. from William Bisschop, a companion of the king's murderers, Thomas Gurney and John Maltravers. Geoffrey also wrote a Chroniculum from the creation of the world until 1336. His writings have been edited with notes by Sir E. M.
Thompson as the Chronicon Gal f ridi le Baker de Swynebroke (Oxford, 1889).