Guy of Bazoches

Guy of Bazoches (before 1146–1203) was a French cleric of the Champagne region, and writer in Latin. He was a canon of Châlons-sur-Marne.

He was a chronicler, of the Third Crusade in particular, in which he had taken part in the retinue of Henry II of Champagne, a poet, and a letter writer.

References

Georg Heinrich Pertz, Die Briefe des Canonicus Guido von Bazoches, Cantors zu Chalons im zwölften Jahrhundert, Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1890, I. pp. 161–179 Wilhelm Wattenbach, Aus den Briefen des Guidos von Bazoches, Neues Archiv 16 (1890), 67-113, Wilhelm Wattenbach, Die Apologie des Guido von Bazoches. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. 1893, I. pp. 395–420 John F. Benton, The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center, Speculum, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1961), pp. 551–591 Herbert Adolfsson, editor (1969), Liber epistularum Guidonis de Basochis

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1203 deaths

French chroniclers

12th-century writers in Latin

12th-century French historians

Medieval Latin poets

Year of birth uncertain

French male poets

12th-century French poets

Christians of the Third Crusade