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d. 1426. Low Countries. Son of a patrician family of Zwolle, alderman (1390), treasurer (1400) and finally mayor (1418) of Zwolle. Author of a Chronica in Latin and Middle Dutch verse, written in or shortly after 1421. The surviving, probably incomplete text comprises several dozen chronograms of one to six leonic verses, which are terse and sometimes rather cryptic. Mainly concerned with events in the north-eastern part of the Low Countries, it contains the first mention of the great fire of Zwolle in 1324, and is important for its records of the Black Death and the persecutions of the Je…

(On the great ones of the Lands of Stein) late 15th or early 16th century. Low Countries. Short prose chronicle in Middle Dutch, written at the Emmaus monastery near Gouda, in the Land of Stein. It tells the history of the Lords of Stein and the founding of the monastery of Emmaus in 1436, thanks to a gift of Jan, the bastard of Blois, lord of Stein, explaining the relationship between the regular canons who moved from Gouda to the Land of Stein, with the town of Gouda and the chapter of Oudemunster at Utrecht. In the manuscript, Leiden, Archief van het Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland, Willens 1,…

[Dirk Frankenszoon Pauw] ca 1416 - ca 1493. Low Countries. Born in Gorinchem, County of Holland; priest, canon and subdeacon at the church of St. Martin and St. Vincent in this town, where he also died. Probably three autograph compilations of historiographic and hagiographic works are known. These may have served as reference books for his own use. Several chronicles and other texts in Latin and Middle Dutch are attributed to him. Some were taken from or added to the compilations. Chronicon Hollandiae, Latin, ca 1471, chronicle of the County of Holland and the Diocese of Utr…