Thomas Lanquet (also Lanket or Lanquette) (1521–1545) was an
English
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chronicler
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.
He studied at
Oxford
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, and devoted himself to historical research. He died in
London
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in 1545 while engaged on a general history; it was a translation of the ''Chronicle'' of
Johann Carion
Johann Carion (22 March 1499 – 2 February 1537) was a German astrologer, known also for historical writings.
Life
He was court astrologer to Elector Joachim I Nestor of Brandenburg. A prognostication he published in 1521 gained him a later re ...
(1499–1537).
Thomas Cooper completed it, and it was published in 1549 by
Thomas Berthelet Thomas Berthelet (died 1555) was a London printer, probably from France. His surname was also variously spelt ''Berthelot'' and ''Berthelett''. Berthelet was to become King's Printer and King's Bookbinder for Henry VIII. His name was Englished as ...
;
['An Epitome of Cronicles conteining the whole Discourse of the Histories as well of this realme of England, as all other countreis . . . gathered out of most probable auctors, fyrst, by T. L., from the beginnyng of the world to the Incarnacion of Christ, and now finished and continued to the reigne of ... Kynge Edwarde the Sixt by T. Cooper,' b.l.] it is generally known as ''Cooper's Chronicle'', and preserves many curious traditions. Under the year 1552, it is noted that then 'one named Johannes Faustius fyrst founde the craft of printinge, in the citee of Mens in Germanie."
Anthony Wood also assigns to Lanquet a ''Treatise of the Conquest of Bulloigne'', but if it was printed it does not seem to have survived.
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1521 births
1545 deaths
English chroniclers
16th-century English historians
16th-century male writers