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BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 480 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BASIN, See also:THOMAS (1412—1491) , See also:bishop of See also:Lisieux and historian, was See also:born probably at Caudebec in See also:Normandy, but owing to the devastation caused by the.See also:Hundred Years' See also:War, his childhood was mainly spent in moving from one See also:place to another. In 1424 he went to the university of See also:Paris, where he became a See also:master of arts in 1429, and afterwards studied See also:law at See also:Louvain and See also:Pavia. He attended the See also:council of See also:Ferrara, and was soon made See also:canon of the See also:church at See also:Rouen, See also:professor of canon law in the new university of See also:Caen and See also:vicar-See also:general for the bishop of See also:Bayeux. In 1447 he became bishop of Lisieux. He was much involved in the See also:wars between the See also:English and See also:French and was employed by See also:Charles VII. of See also:France, and by his successor See also:Louis XI., at whose See also:request Basin See also:drew up a memorandum setting forth the misery of the See also:people and suggesting See also:measures for alleviating their See also:condition. In 1464 the bishop joined the See also:league of the Public Weal, and See also:fell into disfavour with the See also:king, who seized the temporalities of his see. After See also:exile in various places Basin proceeded to See also:Rome and renounced his bishopric. At this See also:time (1474) See also:Pope See also:Sixtus IV. bestowed upon him the See also:title of See also:arch-bishop of Caesarea. Occupied with his writings Basin then passed some years at See also:Trier, and afterwards transferred his See also:residence to See also:Utrecht, where he died on the 3rd of See also:December 1491. He was buried in the church of St See also:John, Utrecht. Basin's See also:principal See also:work is his Historiae de See also:rebus a Carolo VII. et Ludovico XI. Francorum regibus eorumque in tempore in Gallia gestis.

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historical value, but is marred to some extent by the author's dislike for Louis XI. At one time it was regarded as the work of a See also:priest of See also:Liege, named Amelgard, but it is now practically certain that Basin was the writer. He also wrote a See also:suggestion for reform in the See also:administration of See also:justice entitled Libellus de optimo ordine forenses lites audiendi et deferendi; an Apologia, written to See also:answer the charges brought against him by Louis XI.; a Breviloquium, or allegorical See also:account of his own misfortunes; a Peregrinatio; a See also:defence of See also:Joan of Arc entitled Opinio et consilium super processu et condemnatione Johanne, dicte Puelle, and other See also:miscellaneous writings. He wrote in French, Advis de Monseigneur de Lysieux au roi (Paris, 1677). See the edition of the Historiae, by J. E. J. See also:Quicherat , (Paris, 1855—1859) ; also G. du F. de Beaucourt, Charles VII et Louis XI d'apres Thomas Basin (Paris, 1858).

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