Étienne de Rouen
was a Norman Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 monk of Bec-Hellouin of the twelfth century, and a chronicler and poet. He is known for his Arthurian poem Draco Normannicus (Standard of the Normans), at the same time a chronicle from the eleventh century to 1169; it draws on Dudo of St. Quentin and William of Jumièges

William of Jumièges

William of Jumièges was a contemporary of the events of 1066, and one of our earliest writers on the subject of the Norman Conquest. He is himself a "shadowy figure", only known by his dedicatory letter to King William as a monk of Jumièges...

. :Poetically it is supposed that he was influenced by the Ilias of Simon Chèvre d'Or.

He also made an abridgement of Quintilian

Quintilian

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus was a Roman rhetorician from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing...

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