Jean Wauquelin
Jean Wauquelin (? - Mons, September 7th, 1452) is a writer and translator of various works.
" Native of the country of Picardy " like he says itself, he is initially with the service of Jean of Burgundy, seigner of Stamps and Dourdan, governor of Picardy. He settles about 1439 with Mons in Hainaut where he works for the court of Burgundy.
He takes again in 1447 the legend of Gerard of Roussillon. This text will be later shortened by David Aubert and will be inserted in the History of Charles Martel and its successors. It translated into French the Chronica ducum Lotharingiae and the Brabant iae of Edmond de Dynter, the Historia regum Britanniae of Geoffroy de Monmouth, as well as the Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae of Hainaut of Jacques de Guyse, where it shows that its Master, Philippe the Good, Duc of Burgundy, went down from the Troyen S by his/her mother Marguerite of Bavaria, aunt of Jacqueline of Bavaria. The author wished by this text to inform all “oans and lisans, how mondit is descended very redoubté and very powerful lord from the top and excel row of Troyens”.
Jean Wauquelin put in prose Manékine of Philippe de Beaumanoir, the Beautiful Helene of Constantinople and compiled the French of Alexandre in his Livre of conquestes and made novels Alexandre Large the .
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