Jean of Joinville (1224-1317)

Jean of Joinville or Jean, lord of Joinville (1224-1317), was a vassal of Theobald IV., Count of Champagne. He accompanied Louis IX. on his Crusade 1249, and was with him, taking his pay both in Egypt and Syria. His great work, the History of St. Louis, was begun towards the end of his life in 1305, and dedicated to Louis le Hutin, afterwards Louis X. So far as Richard I. is concerned it probably represents the stories current within fifty years of this king's death.

Bibliography:

Delaborde, Recherches critiques sur les premiers seigneurs de Joinville in Bib. Ecole des Chartes (1890).

Fawtier (R.), The Capetian Kings of France: Monarchy and Nation, 987-1328, (1942; trans. 1960).

William of Newburgh

William of Newburgh or William the Little of Newburgh [Parvus], canon of the Augustinian priory of Bridlington in Yorkshire, was according to his latest editor born in 1136, and died probably in 1198. Of his life there is practically nothing known. His great work, Historia Rerum Anglicarum, extends nominally from 1066 to 1198, as originally written by the author; the continuation reaches to 1298.

William of Newburgh, like his namesakes of Malmesbury and of Tyre, is among the few mediaeval historians who are not mere chroniclers.

Bibliography:

Archer (T. A.), The Crusade of Richard I, London, 1889.

Stevenson (J.), The History of 'William of Newburgh' (1066–1194), LLanerch Press, 1996.