Jean Wauquelin (
active in the 15th century
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), born in
Picardy
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, was a writer and translator in
French
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, active in the
County of Hainaut
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in the
Burgundian Netherlands, a county now located in
Belgium
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near the border with
France
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. Wauquelin died on 7 September 1452 in
Mons
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Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
, Hainaut. His date of birth remains unknown.
He translated into French the ''Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae'' of
Edmond de Dynter, the ''Historia regum Britanniae'' of
Geoffrey of Monmouth, and the ''Annales historiae illustrium principum Hannoniae'' of
Jacques de Guyse.
Jean Wauquelin also put into prose the ''Manekine'' of Philippe de Beaumanoir, the ''
Belle Hélène de Constantinople'', and produced a compilation of French romances of
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
in his ''Livre des conquestes et faits d'Alexandre le Grand'' ("Book of the conquests and deeds of Alexander the Great").
Philip the Good
Philip III (french: Philippe le Bon; nl, Filips de Goede; 31 July 1396 – 15 June 1467) was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty, to which all 15th-century kings of France belonge ...
.
File:Alexander the Great conquering the air.jpg, Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...
conquering the air. Jean Wauquelin, ''Les faits et conquêtes d'Alexandre le Grand'', Flanders
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, 1448–1449.
File:Wauquelin-histoire-bnf-fr9342-fol131v-peuple-de-gog-et-magog.jpg, Alexander building a wall to enclose the people of "Gog and Magog", from Wauquelin's story of Alexander.
File:Bataille entre Alexandre et Pôros.jpg, Battle between Alexander and Porus.
Works
La geste ou histore du noble roy Alixandre, roy de Macedonne
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15th-century translators
15th-century writers
Belgian male writers
Latin–French translators
1452 deaths