Castel, Jean, -1476

LC control no.	no2018117577
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Castel, Jean, -1476 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Castel, chroniqueur, -1476 Castel, croniqueur de France, -1476 Castel, Iehan de, -1476 Castel, Jean de, -1476 Castel, Jean, fils, -1476 Castel, Jehan, -1476 De Castel, Jean, -1476 Iehan de Castel, -1476 Jean Castel, -1476 Jean de Castel, -1476 Jehan Castel, -1476
Other standard no.	229694306 http://viaf.org/viaf/229694306
Associated place	Nantes (France)
Death date	1476-02-24
Place of death	Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (France)
Field of activity	Monastic and religious life History Poetry
Affiliation	Benedictines Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Abbey : France)
Profession or occupation	Monks Historians Poets
Found in	La cronique Martiniane de tous les papes qui furent iamais et finist iusques au pape Alexa[n]dre derrenier decede mil cinq cens et trois, et auecques ce les additio[n]s de plusieurs croniqueurs, approximately 1507: title page, v. 1 (cestassauoir de ... monseign[eu]r le croniqueur Castel ...) title page, v. 2 (Le second de la Martiniane. Qui suyt selon les dactes des temps des croniques de France selon le croniqueur Castel ...) Prevost, M. "Castel (Jean)," in Dictionnaire de biographie française, v. 7, 1956: columns 1345-1346 (Castel, Jean, chronicler; has been confused with his father Jean Castel (died approximately 1431), the son of Christine de Pisan; also a poet; lived at St.-Martin-des-Champs and in 1470 bore the titles of "secrétaire du roi, conseiller et chroniqueur de France"; in 1472, abbot of Saint-Maur, in which house he died in February 1476; worked on a chronicle of Louis XI; author also of verses in Latin on events in the reign of Charles VII, titled "Chroniques abrégées de Castel," which show that the author was interested in Brittany and perhaps came from there, or at least had lived in Nantes, and of "Spécule des pécheurs") Lefèvre, Sylvie. "Jean Castel (père et fils)," in Dictionnaire des lettres françaises: le Moyen Âge, édition entièrement revue et mise à jour, 1994, pages 760-761: page 760 (Jean Castel the elder, son of Christine de Pisan, is the author only of a single poem that has survived; he had two sons named Jean, of whom the second is remembered as an author; the younger Jean Castel became a Benedictine monk in 1439 at the convent of Saint-Martin-des-Champs; in 1461, named chronicler by Louis XI, but the only work known by him in this capacity is "Croniques abregees, par Castel croniqueur de France composees"; made abbot of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in 1472; author also of Specule des pecheurs, which mixes French and Latin; died in February 1476) Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge (ARLIMA), August 30, 2018 (Jean Castel fils; Jehan Castel; died February 1476; son of Jean Castel and grandson of Christine de Pisan; Benedictine monk, then abbot of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés; from 1463 to 1476, official historian of king Louis XI; author of Les croniques abregees, in French with some Latin, and other works) <https://arlima.net/no/458> Castel, Jean. Le specule des pecheurs, lexortation des mondains, lexemple des dames, 1485, via Gallica, August 30, 2018: page 4 ("Cy com[m]ance le specule des pecheurs fait et compile ... par frere Iehan de Castel religieux de lordre Saint Benoict et croniqueur de France") Bibliothèque nationale de France. BnF autorités, August 30, 2018 (Castel, Jean (14..-1476); died: 1476-02-24; language: Middle French; also wrote in Latin; Benedictine, chronicler of king Louis XI, abbot of Saint-Maur des Fossés (1472-1476); rejected forms: Jean Castel; Castel, Jean de; Castel, Jehan de) <https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12519504f>
Associated language	frm lat