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Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 140020 July 1453) was a French chronicler. He was born in
1600_ History in Transition. Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s Chronique in Manuscript and Print (c. 1450-c. 1600)
Academia.edu. Retrieved July 23, 2012 He was married and left some children when he died. Little else is known about Monstrelet except that he was present, not at the capture of
Tome 2 1858
Tome 3 1859
Tome 4 1860
Tome 5 1861
Tome 6 1862
vol. 1
(1840)
vol. 2
(1849) on
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 140020 July 1453) was a French chronicler. He was born in Picardy
Picardy (; Picard and french: Picardie, , ) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Hauts-de-France. It is located in the northern part of France.
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, most likely into a family of the minor nobility.
Life
In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the ''gavenier'' (i.e. receiver of the ''gave'', a kind of church rate) atCambrai
Cambrai (, ; pcd, Kimbré; nl, Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the ...
, and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence. He was for some time bailiff
A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French ''baillis'', ''bail'' "custody") is a manager, overseer or custodian – a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given. Bailiffs are of various kinds and their o ...
of the cathedral chapter and then provost of Cambrai.Wijsman, Hann1600_ History in Transition. Enguerrand de Monstrelet’s Chronique in Manuscript and Print (c. 1450-c. 1600)
Academia.edu. Retrieved July 23, 2012 He was married and left some children when he died. Little else is known about Monstrelet except that he was present, not at the capture of
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (french: link=yes, Jeanne d'Arc, translit= an daʁk} ; 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronat ...
, but at her subsequent interrogation with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
Philip III (french: Philippe le Bon; nl, Filips de Goede; 31 July 1396 – 15 June 1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonged ...
. Continuing the work of Froissart, Monstrelet wrote a ''Chronique'', which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444, when, according to another chronicler, Mathieu d'Escouchy Mathieu d'Escouchy (Le Quesnoy, Nord (French department), Nord, 1420 – 1482) was a Picardy, Picard chronicler during the last stages of the Hundred Years War.
His ''Chronique'' was a continuation of the chronicle of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, with ...
, he ceased to write. In these can be found his commentary on the Battle of Tannenburg (1410)
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between the Teutonic Order
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and the Polish-Lithuanian and allied armies, where he stated that the King of Poland "had just recently pretended to become a Christian in order to win the Polish Crown".Turnbull, Stephen, ''Tannenberg 1410'', Osprey Publishing, Oxford UK, 2003, p.18, ISBN 978-1-84176-561-7 But following a custom which was by no means uncommon in the Middle Ages, a clumsy sequel, extending to 1516, was formed out of various chronicles and tacked onto his work.
Monstrelet's own writings, dealing with the latter part of the Hundred Years' War
The Hundred Years' War (; 1337–1453) was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantagen ...
, are valuable because they contain a large number of authentic documents and reported speeches. The author, however, shows little power of narration; his work, although clear, is dull. His somewhat ostentatious assertions of impartiality do not cloak a marked preference for the Burgundians in their struggle with France.
Among many editions of the ''Chronique'' may be mentioned those of J.-A. Buchon (1826) and the one edited for the ''Société de I'histoire de France'' by M Douet d'Arcq (Paris, 1857–1862). See Auguste Molinier
Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian.
Biography
Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; an ...
, ''Les Sources de I'histoire de France'', vols. IV and V (Paris, 1904).
Works
* ** Tome 1 1857Tome 2 1858
Tome 3 1859
Tome 4 1860
Tome 5 1861
Tome 6 1862
References
Sources
*External links
* *''The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet'', translated by Thomas Johnesvol. 1
(1840)
vol. 2
(1849) on
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1400 births
1453 deaths
People from Picardy
15th-century French historians