Trivet, Nicholas
Trivet, Nicholas
(Or “Trevet” as he himself wrote it)
B. about 1258; d. 1328. He was the son of Thomas Trevet, a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family. He became a Dominican in London, and studied first at Oxford, then at Paris, where he first took an interest in English and French chronicles. Little is known of his life except that at one time he was prior of his order in London, and at another he was teaching at Oxford. He was the author of a large number of theological and hstorical works and commentaries on the classics, more especially the works of Seneca. A large number of these exist in MS. in various libraries, but only two appear to have been printed, one being the work by which he is chiefly remembered, the chronicle of the Angevin kings of England, the other was the last twelve books of his commentary on St. Augustine’s treatise “De civitate dei”. The full title of the former work is “Annales sex regum Angliae qui a comitibus Andegavensibus originem traxerunt”, an important historical source for the period 1136-1307, containing a specially valuable account of the reign of Edward I. Trivet also wrote a chronicle in French, parts of which were printed by Spelman, and from which Chaucer is believed to have derived the “Man of Law’s Tale”. His theological works include commentaries on parts of the Scripture, a treatise on the Mass and some writings on Scholastic theology.
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HOG, preface to Trivet’s Chronicle, Eng. Hist. Soc. (London, 1845); TRIVET, Annales sex Regum Angliae (Oxford, 1719); HARDY, Descriptive Catalogue (London, 1871); KINGSFORD in Dict. Nat. Biog., with exhaustive list of MSS.; CHEVALIER, Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen age (Paris, 1905), gives a list of earlier references.
EDWIN BURTON Transcribed by Herman F. Holbrook In memoriam: Rev. P. Osmund Lewry, O.P., of Blackfriars, Oxford.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XVCopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Trivet, Nicholas
an English Dominican monk, was born at Norfolk about 1258. He was educated at Oxford and Paris, and became prior of English houses of his order. He died in 1328. He was the author of Annales Sex Regum Anglice, cum Continuatione ut et A. Murimruthensis Chronicon, etc. (Oxon. 1719- 22, 2 vols. 8vo). He left many MSS. on various subjects of philosophy and theology, as well as a Commentary on Seneca’s Tragedies, etc. See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.