Jean de Joinville presenting his book Life of Saint Louis to Louis X of France, miniature, 1330s.
Born
(1224-05-01)May 1, 1224
Died
December 24, 1317(1317-12-24) (aged 93)
Nationality
French
Occupation(s)
knight, biographer
Jean de Joinville (French pronunciation:[ʒɑ̃dəʒwɛ̃vil], 1 May 1224 – 24 December 1317) was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France.[1] He is most famous for writing the Life of Saint Louis, a biography of Louis IX of France that chronicled the Seventh Crusade.[2]
^Saintsbury, George (1911). "Joinville, Jean, Sire de" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 492–493.
^Villehardouin, G. de., Joinville, J. (1955–1908). Memoirs of the Crusades. London: J.M. Dent. p. 184 (known as Scecedin)
JeandeJoinville (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ də ʒwɛ̃vil], 1 May 1224 – 24 December 1317) was one of the great chroniclers of medieval France. He is most...
summoned was JeandeJoinville-sur-Marne, seneschal of Champagne, whose account is the most detailed personal description of any crusade. Joinville was from...
The first known lord of Joinville (French sire or seigneur deJoinville) in the county of Champagne appears in the middle of the eleventh century. The...
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(then a major Burgundian fortress), and Marguerite de Joinville, daughter of JeandeJoinville, the biographer and close friend of France’s King Louis...
in January 1325. He was the great-grandson of the chronicler JeandeJoinville. Joinville was an able man, and was sent to Achaea as part of John of Gravina's...
eating it raw. This story was popularized by the French chronicler JeandeJoinville in the 13th century, although he never actually encountered Tatars...
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this time. In the Middle Ages, Geoffrey of Villehardouin, JeandeJoinville, and Philippe de Commines wrote memoirs, while the genre was represented toward...
Simon of Joinville (French: Simon deJoinville; Latin: Symon de Jovisvillæ) was a French knight, who became the Lord of Joinville from 1204 until his death...
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from Blanche, so she sought to keep them apart as much as she could. JeandeJoinville tells of the time when Queen Margaret was giving birth and Blanche...
William of Joinville (French Guillaume deJoinville; died 1226) was a French ecclesiastic. A younger son of Geoffrey IV of Joinville and Helvide of Dampierre...
chronicles, however, became very popular and found several continuators, JeandeJoinville being among those who made use of the Chronicon. This work from 1113...
outnumbered and with no back-up from the bulk of the French forces. JeandeJoinville claimed that the Count meant to follow on his own and that the rest...
Kingdom of Hungary. The Christian writer and historian of the crusades, JeandeJoinville (c. 1224–c. 1317), mentions that when the Cumans and Byzantines made...
chronicler JeandeJoinville, who was personally opposed to the venture. Unlike Louis' first Crusade which was documented extensively by Joinville, the primary...
known as the Crusade of Louis IX of France to Tunis. Accompanied by JeandeJoinville who wrote the biography Life of Saint Louis (1309). Thomas Fuller...
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