G041
Complaintes sur la mort de Philippe le BonCentury: 15
Circumstantial literature
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:after July 1467 (Urwin) - Commission: /
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CONTEXT
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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
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Tournai, Bibliothèque de la Ville
Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
Tournai, Bibliothèque de la Ville
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)
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)
LINKS
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Contributor:
Jan Van Schaftingen
Marit Gypen
Update:
2013-06-10 15:08:43
© 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 15:08:43
© The Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries (Brussels: Royal Historical Commission, since 2009). URL: www.narrative-sources.be (accessed August 28th 2026).
