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French clergyman From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sébastien Mamerot (between c. 1418 and 1440 – 1490) was a French clergyman, scholar, novelist, and translator.
Originally from Soissons, Mamerot served as clergyman and secretary to Louis de Laval, governor of Dauphiné (1448–1458), Champagne (1465–1472) and Touraine (1483–1484), protégé and adviser to King Louis XI.
In 1460, he became chaplain. From July 1472 to August 1478, he was a canon and cantor at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Étienne in Troyes.
In 1466, he wrote Romuléon, based on translating the original Romuleon, a work commissioned by Louis de Laval.
In 1472, Louis de Laval asked his clergyman and secretary, Mamerot, to write a chronicle of the Crusades. That work, entitled Passages d'outremer, was a collection of various stories, from the legendary conquest of Jerusalem by Charlemagne to the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and Siege of Constantinople (1394–1402). Later on, another text was added to the beginning of the manuscript, a French translation of a letter written by Sultan Bayezid II to King Charles VIII, which was sent from Constantinople on July 4, 1488.
In 1488, based on his own impressions of a trip to the Levant, he compiled the Compendieuse Description de la Terre de Promision.[1]
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