Bernard André, O.E.S.A. (1450–1522), also known as Andreas, was a French Augustinian friar and poet, who was a noted chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England, and poet laureate.

A native of Toulouse, André was tutor to Prince Arthur of England, and probably had a share in the education of the future King Henry VIII. He was also a tutor at Oxford. It is believed that he was blind. His writings are mostly in Latin, and are typical of the contemporary Renaissance, in thought and diction. His Historia Henrici Septimi was edited (1858) by James Gairdner, who says of André's chronicle of events in the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 that it is valuable "only as one of the very few sources of contemporary information in a particularly obscure period".

Bernard André

Bibliography

Bernard André, The Life of Henry VII, translated and introduced by Daniel Hobbins (New York: Italica Press, 2011).

Bernard André

References

Attribution

The entry cites: J. Gairdner, Memorials of Henry VII in Rolls Series (London 1858) — For André's Life of Henry VII;

Bernard André

Gardiner and Mullinger, Introduction to the Study of English History (4th ed., 1903), 303, 304.

1450 births

1522 deaths

Writers from Toulouse

Augustinian friars

16th-century male writers

15th-century French Roman Catholic priests

16th-century French Roman Catholic priests

15th-century French poets

16th-century French poets

French expatriates in England

English chroniclers

15th-century French historians

16th-century French historians

French male poets

French male non-fiction writers