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Bernard Desclot

1201 - 1287

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Bernard Desclot (in Catalan: Bernat Desclot) was a Catalan chronicler whose work covering the brief reign of Peter III of Aragon (1276–1285) forms one of the four Catalan Grand Chronicles through which the modern historian views thirteenth- and fourteenth century military and political matters in the Kingdom of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia, including the "Aragonese Crusade". Desclot's Chronicle begins in the eleventh century but gains especial interest when he comes to describe events current within living memory. Bernard's literary model was Romance, and his account is spiced with dramatic monologues of the central characters and thrilling episodes, such as the escape of Peter's brother, James II of Majorca, from the fortress of Perpignan, through the castle's drains. Nothing of Bernard himself is known save what little can be gleaned through his Chronicle. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Desclot is the 243rd most popular historian (up from 267th in 2019), the 3,131st most popular biography from France (up from 3,359th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Bernard Desclot ranks 243 out of 561. Before him are Tony Judt, Edward Luttwak, Francisco López de Gómara, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Ibn Hayyan, and Alexander Vasiliev. After him are Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Muhammad Aufi, Rudolph Rummel, Natalie Zemon Davis, and Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1201, Bernard Desclot ranks 17. Before him are Philip I, Count of Boulogne, Qin Jiushao, Kebek, Emperor Mo of Jin, Elena Asenina of Bulgaria, and Daumantas of Lithuania. After him are Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Constantine Doukas of Thessaly, and Agnes of the Palatinate. Among people deceased in 1287, Bernard Desclot ranks 6. Before him are Pope Honorius IV, Ghiyas ud din Balban, Bohemond VII of Antioch, Tode Mongke, and Bonaventura Berlinghieri. After him are Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of Norway, William I de la Roche, and Konrad von Würzburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard Desclot ranks 3,131 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Patou (1887), Lupus Servatus (805), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), Marcel Boulenger (1873), and Hervé Faye (1814). After him are François Joseph Westermann (1751), André Maschinot (1903), Louis Réard (1897), Pierre Bec (1921), Louis Charles Breguet (1880), and Alexandre-Théodore-Victor, comte de Lameth (1760).

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Among HISTORIANS In France

Among historians born in France, Bernard Desclot ranks 31. Before him are George Cœdès (1886), Henri Maspero (1883), Paul Veyne (1930), Roger Chartier (1945), Edgar Quinet (1803), and Joseph de Guignes (1721). After him are Charles Rollin (1661), Régine Pernoud (1909), André Clot (1909), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Claude Cahen (1909), and Georges Lefebvre (1874).

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