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Benoît de Sainte-Maure

1154 - 1173

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Benoît de Sainte-Maure (French pronunciation: [bənwa də sɛ̃t moʁ]; died 1173) was a 12th-century French poet, most probably from Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine near Tours, France. The Plantagenets' administrative center was located in Chinon, west of Tours. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benoît de Sainte-Maure is the 2,113th most popular writer (up from 2,385th in 2019), the 2,387th most popular biography from France (up from 2,652nd in 2019) and the 297th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Benoît de Sainte-Maure ranks 2,113 out of 7,302Before him are Tomé Pires, Jordan of Saxony, Kingsley Amis, Maximus the Greek, Dionysios Solomos, and Guan Hanqing. After him are Kate Millett, Niccolò de' Niccoli, Arthur Young, Kim Bu-sik, Fan Zhongyan, and John W. Campbell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1154, Benoît de Sainte-Maure ranks 8Before him are Constance, Queen of Sicily, Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem, Vsevolod the Big Nest, Sancho VII of Navarre, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, and Sancha of Castile, Queen of Aragon. After him is Robert II, Count of Dreux. Among people deceased in 1173, Benoît de Sainte-Maure ranks 7Before him are Petronilla of Aragon, Najm ad-Din Ayyub, Benjamin of Tudela, Bolesław IV the Curly, Uijong of Goryeo, and Richard of Saint Victor. After him are Matthew, Count of Boulogne, Euphrosyne of Polotsk, Hugh VIII of Lusignan, and Kol of Sweden.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît de Sainte-Maure ranks 2,387 out of 6,770Before him are Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres (1840), Jacques Copeau (1879), Lucile Desmoulins (1770), William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (935), Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy (1571), and Hervé (1825). After him are Julien Benda (1867), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), Jean Delannoy (1908), Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (1851), Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1673), and Augustin Thierry (1795).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Benoît de Sainte-Maure ranks 297Before him are Isaac the Blind (1160), Pierre Plantard (1920), François Hotman (1524), Menasseh Ben Israel (1604), Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786), and Thomas Merton (1915). After him are Albert Gleizes (1881), Paul Hazard (1878), Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens (1704), Étienne Jodelle (1532), Yvan Goll (1891), and Roger Peyrefitte (1907).