GILLES DE ROPE or EGIDIUS DE ROYA (d. 1478), Flemish Cistercian chronicler, was born probably at Montdidier, and became professor of theology in Paris and abbot of the monas tery of Royaumont at Asnieres-sur-Oise, retiring about 1458 to the convent of Notre Dame des Dunes, near Furnes. Gilles wrote the Chronicon Dunense or Annales Belgici, a resume and continuation of the work of another monk, Jean Brandon (d. 1428), which deals with the history of Flanders, and also with events in Germany, Italy and England from 792 to 1478.
The Chronicle was published by F. R. Sweert in the Rerum Belgi carum annales (Frankfort, 162o) ; and the earlier part of it by C. B. Kervyn de Lettenhove in the Chroniques relatives a l'histoire de la Belgique (187o)