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G041

Complaintes sur la mort de Philippe le Bon

Century: 15

Circumstantial literature

French

INCIPIT

EXPLICIT

Georges Chastelain, Georges Chastellain

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:after July 1467 (Urwin) - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Five texts - one poem, two chronogrammes, an anagram and one single verse - of which the last four ones are written by George Chastelain as a result of the decease of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy (+1467).

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 71 C 23
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Med. Pal., 120
Tournai, Bibliothèque de la Ville, 137

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

DE LETTENHOVE (J.M.B.C.), Oeuvres de George Chastellain, 7, Collection des anciens auteurs belges/ ARB, Commission pour la publication des oeuvres des grands écrivains (Brussel, 1865; reprint: Genève, 1971) 281-284

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)
STEIN (R.), ‘Nationale identiteiten in de Late Middeleeuwen. Een verkenning’, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis, 28 (2002) 242-243
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 15:08:43