Jehan de Waurin

Jehan de Waurin

Jehan (or Jean) de Waurin (or Wavrin) (d. c. 1474), French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Artois, and was present at the battle of Agincourt.

Afterwards he fought for the Burgundians at Verneuil and elsewhere, and then occupying a high position at the court of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, was sent as ambassador to Rome in 1463.

Jehan compiled the "Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne", a collection of the sources of English history from the earliest times to 1471. For this work he borrowed from Froissart, Monstrelet and others; but for the period between 1444 and 1471 the "Recueil" is original and valuable, although somewhat untrustworthy with regard to affairs in England itself.

From the beginning to 688 and again from 1399 to 1471 the text has been edited for the Rolls Series (5 vols, London, 1864-1891), by W. and E. L. C. P. Hardy, who have also translated the greater part of it into English. The section from 1325 to 1471 has been edited by L. M. E. Dupont (Paris, 1858-1863).----


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