Gilles Li Muisis

Gilles Li Muisis, even Gilles Le Muiset (* 1272 in Tournai, Belgium today, † October 15, 1352 ) was a French monk, chronicler and poet.

He is also known under the following names or spellings: Giles Li Muisis, Aegidius Mucidus, Aegidius Le Muisit, Aegidius LeMuisit, Gilles LiMuisis, Gilles LeMiusit, Gilles Muisit, Gillion le Muisit, Gilles Le Muizet, Gilles de Muisis, Gilles le Morveux, Gilles de Saint -Martin de Tournai le Gillon Muisi.

Gilles Li Muisis occurred in 1289 in the Benedictine monastery of St. Martin in Tournai and was in 1327 appointed there to Prior. His religious name was Brother Aegidius (Latin Aegidius = double Gilles). On April 30, 1331, he was appointed abbot of the monastery. Gilles wrote in Latin chronicles Chronicon majus and minus Chronicon, which deal with the history of the world from the Creation to the year 1349. Another writer led the chronicles continued until the death Gilles in 1352. They are considered as an important witness to the history of northern France and Flanders for the first half of the 14th century and by Joseph -Jean De Smet ( 1794-1877 ) were published in his work Corpus chronicorum Flandriae.

Is known is his exaggerated description of the Cologne Jewish pogroms in the St. Bartholomew's Day in 1349, according to which 25,000 Jews would have been slaughtered that night. His presentation coined the term "Jew Battle " for the events of that night.

From the pen Gilles further some poems in dialect tournaier, issued by Baron Joseph de Kervyn Lettenhove in the 19th century come.

Works

• Chronica Aegidii li Muisis, ed. by Joseph -Jean De Smet in: Corpus chronicorum Flandriae, Vol 2, Brussels 1841.
• Chronique de Gilles et annales le Muisit. Abbé de Saint -Martin de Tournai (1272-1362), ed. by Henri Lemaître, Paris 1905.
• Poésies de Gilles li Muisis. Publ 1 fois pour la d'après le ms. de Lord Ashburnham, ed. of Kervyn de Lettenhove, 2 volumes, Louvain 1882.