Bernard André,

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(1450–1522), also known as Andreas, was a

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and poet, who was a noted chronicler of the reign of

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, and

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. A native of

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, André was tutor to Prince Arthur of England, and probably had a share in the education of the future King

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, who says of André's chronicle of events in the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 that it is valuable "only as one of the very few sources of contemporary information in a particularly obscure period".

Bibliography

* Bernard André
''The Life of Henry VII,''
translated and introduced by Daniel Hobbins (New York: Italica Press, 2011).

References

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