Geoffrey Gaimar (fl. c. 1135–1140)

Author of the L’Estoire des Engleis, one of the earliest historical narratives in Anglo-Norman verse.

Wace (fl. c. 1135–1174)

Best known for the Roman de Brut, a chronicle that adapts Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae into Anglo-Norman verse.

Benoît de Sainte-Maure (fl. c. 1155–1170)

Author of the Roman de Troie, a major medieval retelling of the Trojan War in the Anglo-Norman literary tradition.

Marie de France (fl. c. 1160–1215)

Although her identity remains uncertain, Marie de France wrote a collection of Lais, narrative poems that blend Celtic folklore with courtly themes.

Philippe de Thaon (fl. c. 1113–1139)

Known for composing early didactic poems in Anglo-Norman, including the Comput (a scientific calendar) and the Bestiaire (a verse adaptation of the Latin Physiologus tradition).

Serlo of Bayeux (fl. late 11th century)

A cleric and poet associated with Normandy and England, remembered for satirical and moralistic verse written in the Anglo-Norman milieu.