Jordi de Sant Jordi - Citizendia

Jordi de Sant Jordi (late 1390s – c. 1424) was born in the Kingdom of Valencia. The Christian Kingdom of Valencia, located in the Eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon. He was Chamberlain at the court of King Alfons V of Aragon (Alfons III of Valencia) but is best known for his poetry. A chamberlain is an officer in charge of managing a household. Alfonso the Magnanimous (also Alphonso; Catalan: Alfons) (1396 &ndash 27 June 1458) was the King of Aragon (as

Sant Jordi was a contemporary of Ausiàs March and among the earliest writers of the golden age of Catalan language literature in the 15th century. Ausiàs March (c 1397 - March 3, 1459) Valencian Poet, was born in Gandia ( Valencia) towards the end of the Catalan ˈkætəˌlæn ( català kətəˈla or) is a Romance language, the national and official language of Andorra, and a co-official He was patronised by Queen-Dowager Margarida of Aragon-Prades, widow of King Martí I. Martin of Aragon (1356 &ndash 31 May 1410) called the Elder, the Humane, the Ecclesiastic, was the King of Aragon,

Taking part in King Alfonso's expedition to the Kingdom of Naples, Sant Jordi was captured by the forces of Francesco Sforza on 30 May 1423. The Kingdom of Naples was an informal name of the Polity officially known as the Kingdom of Sicily which existed on the mainland of the southern Italian Francesco I Sforza ( July 23, 1401 - March 8, 1466) was an Italian Condottiero, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Events 1416 - The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund a supporter of Antipope John XXIII burns Jerome of Prague following During his captivity, he wrote the well known poem Prisoner.

He died in about 1424. Among later writers who appear to draw from his work is Joan Roís de Corella. Joan Roís de Corella (1435&ndash1497 was a Catalan language writer Iñigo López de Mendoza's work The Coronation of Lord Jordi is dedicated to him.

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(French) Pujol-Gomez, J, "Jordi de Saint Jordi" in Gauvard, C. , de Libera, A. & Zink, M. (eds), Dictionnaire du Moyen Âge. Paris: PUF/Quadrige, 2nd edn, 2004. ISBN 2-13-054339-1

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