Nicholas Trivet (or Trevet, as he himself wrote), (c. 1257–c. 1334), was an English Anglo-Norman chronicler. Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (d. 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family. Nicholas became a Dominican friar in London, and studied first at Oxford and later in Paris, where he first took an interest in English and French chronicles.

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  • Nicholas Trivet (or Trevet, as he himself wrote), (c. 1257–c. 1334), was an English Anglo-Norman chronicler. Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (d. 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family. Nicholas became a Dominican friar in London, and studied first at Oxford and later in Paris, where he first took an interest in English and French chronicles. Little is known of the greater part of his life except that at one time he was prior of his order in London, and at another he was teaching at Oxford. He was the author of a large number of theological and historical works and commentaries on the classics, more especially the works of Seneca. A large number of these exist in MS. in various libraries, but only two appear to have been printed, one being the work by which he is chiefly remembered, the chronicle of the Angevin kings of England; the other was the last twelve books of his commentary on St. Augustine's treatise De civitate dei. The full title of the former work is Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt, an important historical source for the period between 1135 and 1307, containing a specially valuable account of the reign of Edward I, who was his contemporary. Trivet also wrote a chronicle in French, parts of which were printed by Henry Spelman, and from which Chaucer is believed to have obtained his Man of Law's Tale. The Annales were published in Paris in 1668, in Oxford in 1719, and were edited by Thomas Hogg for the English Historical Society in 1845. Manuscripts are at Oxford and in the British Museum. Trevet's other historical works are Catalogus regum anglo-saxonum durante heptarchia, and Les Cronicles qe frere N. Trevet escript a dame Marie (Marie was Edward I's daughter Mary). From the latter, Trivet also wrote a number of works of a theological and philological character. Trivet also wrote many biblical commentaries, treatises and translations. A member of Nicholas' family was Sir Thomas Trivit (d. October 1383), a soldier of repute, who saw a good deal of service in France.
  • Nicholas Trivet, ou Nicolaus Triveth, Nicolas Trevet en français, né à Norfolk vers 1258 et mort en 1328, est un historien et philologue anglais. Nicholas Trivet était le fils de Sir Thomas Trivet de Norfolk, chef justicier au tribunal du roi. Chevalier éduqué à Oxford puis à l’Université de Paris où il a commencé ses recherches. De retour en Angleterre, il est entré chez les dominicains dont il est peut-être devenu le prieur. Il a enseigné à Oxford où il a été régent à deux reprises. Selon Cristoforo Baggiolini, il se serait rendu dans le sud de la France où il se serait signalé par son zèle contre les hérétiques avant de se rendre en Italie où, prêchant la trêve de Dieu entre les seigneurs et les villes libres de Lombardie contre les hérétiques piémontais, il aurait exhorté les troupes catholiques en armure et portant un immense crucifix en étendard jusqu’aux milieu des batailles. On a dix-huit œuvres de Nicholas Trivet. Il a écrit en latin une Expositio super librum Boecii Consolatione (« Explication de la Consolation de Philosophie de Boèce »), des Annales Sex regum Angliæ (« Annales des six rois d’Angleterre ») qui commence en 1136 avec le règne d’Étienne de Blois et se termine en 1307 à la mort d’Édouard I, des Annales ab origine Mundi ad Christum (« Annales depuis les origines du Monde jusqu’au Christ »), un commentaire sur le De civitate Dei de saint Augustin ainsi qu’un commentaire sur les tragédies de Sénèque qui annonce la Renaissance. Il a également écrit en anglo-normand vers 1334 la Cronicles que frère Nichol Trivet escrit à ma dame Marie la filhe moun seignour le roi d'Engleterre Edward le filtz Henri pour la fille d’Édouard Ier, la princesse Mary, devenue nonne en 1285 à Amesbury, contient l’Histoire de Constance qui a inspiré tant Chaucer que John Gower. L’œuvre littéraire de Nicholas Trivet en tant que commentateur de Tite-Live, Juvénal, Ovide, Sénèque ou Aristote dépasse tout ce qui s’est écrit en son siècle en Angleterre. Quant à son travail d’exégète de la bible, il surpasse également tout ce qui s’est fait au Moyen Âge. Son travail de chroniqueur lui a également valu une grande réputation de fiabilité qui a contribué à le faire connaître hors des frontières de son pays et même subventionner ses recherches par le pape Jean XXII.
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  • Nicholas Trivet (or Trevet, as he himself wrote), (c. 1257–c. 1334), was an English Anglo-Norman chronicler. Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (d. 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family. Nicholas became a Dominican friar in London, and studied first at Oxford and later in Paris, where he first took an interest in English and French chronicles.
  • Nicholas Trivet, ou Nicolaus Triveth, Nicolas Trevet en français, né à Norfolk vers 1258 et mort en 1328, est un historien et philologue anglais. Nicholas Trivet était le fils de Sir Thomas Trivet de Norfolk, chef justicier au tribunal du roi. Chevalier éduqué à Oxford puis à l’Université de Paris où il a commencé ses recherches. De retour en Angleterre, il est entré chez les dominicains dont il est peut-être devenu le prieur.
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