Bernard André
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Bernard André (Andreas) was a French Augustinian poet, a chronicler of the reign of Henry VII of England, and poet laureate.
[edit] Life
A native of Toulouse, he was tutor to Prince Arthur, and probably had a share in the education of the future Henry VIII. He was also a tutor at Oxford, and seems to have been blind.
[edit] Works
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 revolt of 1497 that it is valuable "only as one of the very few sources of contemporary information in a particularly obscure period".
[edit] References
- For André's Life of Henry VII, see J. Gairdner, Memorials of Henry VII in Rolls Series (London 1858;
- ____, in Dict. Of Nat. Biogr., I, 398, 399;
- Gardiner and Mullinger, Introd. To the Study of English History (4th ed., 1903), 303, 304.
This article incorporates text from the entry Bernard André in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
