Guillaume Guiart (or Guiard) (died c. 1316) was a French chronicler and poet.

Life

He was probably born at

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
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in 1304. Having been disabled by a wound he began to write, lived at

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and then in Paris, thus being able to consult the large store of manuscripts in the abbey of St Denis, including the ''Grandes chroniques de France''. Afterwards he appears as a . Guiart's poem ''Branche des Royaux lignages'', was written and then rewritten between 1304 and 1307, in honour of the French king Philip IV, and in answer to the aspersions of a Flemish poet. Comprising over 21,000 verses it deals with the history of the French kings from the time of

Louis VIII Louis VIII (5 September 1187 – 8 November 1226), nicknamed The Lion (french: Le Lion), was King of France from 1223 to 1226. As prince, he invaded England on 21 May 1216 and was excommunicated by a papal legate on 29 May 1216. On 2 June 1216 ...

; but it is only really important for the period after 1296 and for the war in Flanders from 1301 to 1304, of which it gives a graphic account, and for which it is a high authority. It was first published by JA Buchon (Paris, 1828), and again in tome xxii. of the ''Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France'' (Paris, 1865).

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A. Molinier Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian. Biography Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; an ...

, ''Les Sources de l'histoire de France'', tome iii. (Paris, 1903). {{DEFAULTSORT:Guiart, Guillaume 1316 deaths 14th-century French historians French poets Writers from Orléans 13th-century births French male poets