Thomas Lanquet (also Lanket or Lanquette) (1521–1545) was an

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

chronicler A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ''chrónos'' – "time") is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and lo ...

. He studied at

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, and devoted himself to historical research. He died in

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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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lanquet, Thomas 1521 births 1545 deaths English chroniclers 16th-century English historians 16th-century male writers