Enguerrand de Monstrelet was a French chronicler He was born in Picardy most likely into a family of the minor nobility
In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the gavenier ie receiver of the gave a kind of church rate at Cambrai and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence He was for some time bailiff of the cathedral chapter and then provost of Cambrai He was married and left some children when he died
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