Francis Kynaston
Sir Francis Kynaston (also Kinaston , * 1587 in Oteley near Ellesmere , Shropshire ; † 1642 ) was an English poet and courtier at the court of Charles I.
Francis Kynaston was the son of Sir Edward Kynaston, who was High Sheriff of Nottingham in 1599 , and of Isabel, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bagenall. He studied from 1601 at Oriel College of the University of Oxford , acquired in 1604 his Bachelor of Arts at St. Mary Hall College and an MA degree in 1609 from Trinity College . That same year he was admitted to the Lincoln's Inn bar. In 1613 he married Margaret, the daughter of Sir Humphrey Lee, with whom he had a son and four daughters. In 1618 he was beaten by James I to Knight Bachelor and from 1621 to 1622 he was Knight of the Shire for Shropshire a member of the House of Commons . In 1625 he received a court office ( Esquire of the body of the king) on the accession to the throne of Charles I. According to some authors, he was a taxor for the University of Cambridge in 1623 and a proctor there in 1634, but this may be confused with another Francis Kynaston. He was an important member of the literary circle at the court of Charles I. In 1635 he founded a knight academy in London to train young nobles and gentlemen for the Grand Tour (Musaeum Minervae). It was in Bedfordbury in Covent Garden, at the place where Kynaston's Lane is now named after him. When the later Charles II visited the academy as Duke of York in 1636, a mask play was performed in his honor (his Corona Minervae). The Academy died after Kynaston's death. He is buried in Oteley.
Around 1636 he proposed a type of hanging stove for their ships to the Royal Navy .
He is known as a translator into Latin of Troilus and Cressida (Troilis and Criseyde) by Geoffrey Chaucer , who appeared in Oxford in 1635. In 1642 his verse romance Leoline and Synadis was published along with his Cynthiades , addressed to his lover Cynthia. You are known for verses lamenting the rainy weather in England (as opposed to Scotland). He also contributed to the Latin translation of verses by Arthur Johnston (Musae Aulicae) and translated the Testament of Cresseid by the 15th century Scottish poet Robert Henryson into Latin.
literature
- Emily Tennyson Bradley: Kynaston, Francis In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 31, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1892, pp. 355 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alumni Oxonensis under Francis Kinaston , British History Online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kynaston, Francis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kinaston, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet and courtier |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1587 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Ellesmere , Shropshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1642 |