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Epistre au bon duc Philippe de BourgogneCentury: 15
Poems
French
INCIPIT
EXPLICIT
Sex: M- Bio: Born in Lede (?) from the mariage of Jan Chastelain, a Ghent shipmaster, and Marie van Massemen, a lady of the lower Flemish nobility (because of financial misfortune his parents were forced to move between 1410 and 1415 from the Ghent city life to a short life in the country in the area of Alost); 1430-1432: studied in Louvain; 1433: shortly in military service for Philip the Good (overdue payment in 1434); 1439 (and presumably also the years before that): active in the Ghent trade life, but without much success; 1441: at the court of the French king Charles VII; from 1446 on finally in the service of the Burgundian dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold: in 1455 official historiographer, in 1457 ducal counsellor, in 1473 knight; (?ca.1414/+20th March 1475) (Small).-Status author (order, function):
EDITING
Location: / - Date:August 1456 (Urwin), 5th August 1456 (Small) - Commission: /
SIZE
552 verzen (69 strofen van 8 verzen)
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
The author praises the virtues of Philip the Good (+1467). He recalls the royal origins of the Burgundian dynasty, and describes the victories of the duke of Burgundy.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
KERVYN DE LETTENHOVE (J.M.B.C.), Oeuvres de George Chastellain, 6, Collection des anciens auteurs belges/ ARB, Commission pour la publication des oeuvres des grands écrivains (Brussel, 1864) 147-166
LITERATURE
MINET -MAHY (V.), L’automne des images: Pragmatique de la langue figurée chez George Chastelain, François Villon et Maurice Scève (Paris, 2009)
SMALL (G.), ‘Chastelain, George’, in: G. Dunphy, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden/Boston, 2010) , 268-269
SMALL (G.), George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy: political and historical culture at court in the fifteenth century (London, 1997)
TYL-LABORY (G.), LEFÈVRE (S.), 'Georges Chastellain', in: Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Paris, 1992) 510-512
URWIN (K.), Georges Chastellain, la vie, les oeuvres (Paris, 1937; reprint: Genève, 1975)
SMALL (G.), ‘Chastelain, George’, in: G. Dunphy, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden/Boston, 2010) , 268-269
SMALL (G.), George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy: political and historical culture at court in the fifteenth century (London, 1997)
TYL-LABORY (G.), LEFÈVRE (S.), 'Georges Chastellain', in: Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Paris, 1992) 510-512
URWIN (K.), Georges Chastellain, la vie, les oeuvres (Paris, 1937; reprint: Genève, 1975)
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Contributor:
Jan Van Schaftingen
Marit Gypen
Update:
2013-06-10 15:04:58
Contributor:
Jan Van Schaftingen
Marit Gypen
Update:
2013-06-10 15:04:58
Royal Historical Commission
ISSN 2032-4677
© Copyright Narrative Sources 2026
ISSN 2032-4677
© Copyright Narrative Sources 2026
