Jean Sarrasin
Jean Sarrasin (also Sarrazin ; Latin Johannes Sarracenus ; † 1275) was a court official of the French King Louis IX. the saint .
Life
He came from an upper-class family in Paris and was the grandson of Pierre Sarrazin, a scribe to the king. He was initially an accountant for Alfonso of Poitiers before he entered the service of the king, whom he accompanied on the crusade to Egypt (1248–1254). Later he was responsible for the accounting of the royal household, the wax tablets that served as drafts for the year 1256/57 have been preserved. He is mentioned in 1258 when he carried out financial transactions with the Knights Templar in Paris on behalf of the Crown .
He married Agnès, the widow of Étienne Barbette (I), who died in 1269, whose two sons Étienne Barbette (II.) And Jean Barbette (I) he married with his two daughters Pétronille and Jacqueline, which, however, presupposes that they come from one Jean Sarrazin's previous marriage. Presumably he also had a son of unknown name from his first marriage, who married Jeanne Pizdoue , and whose son Jean was the king's valet and from 1298-1304 Échevin of Paris .
In 1270 he became Chambellan du Roi. He died in 1275.
Letter to Nicolas Arrode
On the crusade to Egypt, a few days after the conquest of Damiette , he wrote a letter dated June 23, 1249 to Nicolas Arrode , a Parisian friend of his. He wrote this letter in French , making it one of the earliest evidence of the increasing use of the French script over Latin in the private correspondence of the upper classes in France. Sarrasin described the course of the crusade from its beginning in Aigues-Mortes (August 1248) to the capture of the Egyptian port city of Damiette (beginning of June 1249) with detailed dates and strengths. Together with the letter from the royal chamberlain Jean de Beaumont , which was written in Latin at the same time , this report can be used as a corrective addition to Jean de Joinville 's royal vita, which was written much later and in which Sarrasin himself was mentioned several times.
Wax tablets
Wax tablets , which were already in common use in antiquity , were used until the 14th century. They contained everything that was fleeting, including draft accounts, before being copied into final records on parchment . The fourteen tables kept in the Archives nationales de France (26 pages covered with wax, the first and the last page form the cover) were not intended for safekeeping either, as the accounts entered there have been scratched (scratched), which proves that they have been copied elsewhere. So it is a coincidence that they were preserved. They are mentioned in an inventory of the Trésor de Chartes , the old archives of the Crown, in 1750 .
literature
- Wendy Ayres-Bennett: A History of the French Language Through Texts. Routledge, London 1996.
- Boris Bove: Y at-il un patriciat à Paris sous le règne de Philippe Le Bel (1285–1314)? , in: Claude Petitfrère (Ed.): Construction, reproduction, et représentation des patriciats urbains de l'antiquité au XXe siècle ( accessed online on August 9, 2019)
- Alfred L. Foulet (ed.), Jean Sarrasin, Lettre à Nicolas Arrode (1249). , Champion, Paris 1924
- Elisabeth Lalou, Les comptes sur tablettes de cire de Jean Sarrazin, chambellan de Saint Louis , Leuven, Brepols, 2003 ( Monumenta palaeographica Medii Aevi, series Gallica )
- Ariane James-Sarazin, Elsa Marguin-Hamon (eds.), Grands documents de l'histoire de France , Paris, Archives nationales et Réunion des musées nationaux et du Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées (RMN), 2007
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarrasin, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sarrazin, Jean; Sarracenus, Johannes (Latin) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French chronicler and court official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th century or 13th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1275 |