Guillaume de Nangis

Guillaume de Nangis ( German: William of Nangis, * 1250, † probably 1300) was a French historian and biographer of the 13th century.

Life

Nangis was probably born around 1250 and came at a young age as a monk in the royal Benedictine abbey of Saint -Denis a, whose archivist, he advanced. Around the year 1285 he began drafting a per Vita of the French kings Louis IX. ( Saint Louis) and Philip III. ( Gesta Sancti Ludovici and Gesta Philippi Regis Franciæ ) and a world chronicle ( Chronicon ). These works represent a primary source for the history of France in the second half of the 13th century dar.

His Chronicle follows up on the work of the writing at the beginning of the 12th century Sigebert of Gembloux and bears until the year 1112 his own personal traits. From the year 1300 resulted in one or more continuer of the Chronicle to the year 1328 on. For his biography of King Louis IX. moved Nangis approach the works of the royal confessor, Guillaume de Beaulieu and Gilon de Reims, the latter of which has not survived. He based his work solely on source studies and testimonies, as he himself had not met the king in person. As a young monk he had attended only the burial of the bones of the king in 1271 in Saint- Denis. In addition to the persons of the kings of the description of the glory of the French arms in general was a concern of Nangis, why take in his Lives of the biography of Prince Charles of Anjou and his victories against the Staufer a prominent role.