G034
Déclaration des Hauts Faits du duc PhilippeCentury: 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:1467 or 1468 (Urwin); between 15 june and 19 july 1467, only a few weeks or even days after the death of Philip the Good, but shortly after the ascension to the throne of Charles the Bold (Small) - Commission: /
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CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Summary of the political life of Philip the Fair, duke of Burgundy (1419-+1467), followed by a description of his personality and morality, including his shortcomings. The poem also holds an enumeration of the virtues and shortcomings of Charles the Bold (1467-+1477). The text ends with a comparison between father and son.
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
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) 213-236
LITERATURE
DEVAUX (J.), 'Jean Molinet, indiciaire bourguignon', in: Bibliothèque du XVe siècle, 55 (Paris, 1996) 259
Karel de Stoute. Tentoonstelling georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de vijfhonderdste verjaring van zijn dood, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I Brussel (Brussel, 1977) 131-132 nr. 41
LADAM (N.), Mémoire et épitaphe de Ferdinand d'Aragon, Bibiothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège, 212 (Parijs, 1975) 34
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) 245-248
URWIN (K.), Georges Chastellain, la vie, les oeuvres (Paris, 1937; reprint: Genève, 1975)
Karel de Stoute. Tentoonstelling georganiseerd naar aanleiding van de vijfhonderdste verjaring van zijn dood, Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I Brussel (Brussel, 1977) 131-132 nr. 41
LADAM (N.), Mémoire et épitaphe de Ferdinand d'Aragon, Bibiothèque de la Faculté de philosophie et lettres de l'Université de Liège, 212 (Parijs, 1975) 34
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) 245-248
URWIN (K.), Georges Chastellain, la vie, les oeuvres (Paris, 1937; reprint: Genève, 1975)
LINKS
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Contributor:
Jan Van Schaftingen
Marit Gypen
Update:
2013-06-10 15:03:30
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed August 28th 2026).
Contributor:
Jan Van Schaftingen
Marit Gypen
Update:
2013-06-10 15:03:30
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed August 28th 2026).
