Jacques de Bongars
Jacques de Bongars was born in
Orleans in 1554 and raised as a
Reformed Christian (aka Calvinist). He worked as a Diplomat
for
King Henry IV of France from 1587 until 1610 and died in Paris
on 29 July 1612.
Bongars was also a writer and produced many letters and papers along with
several mostly historical books and compilations among them
- an abridgment of Justin's abridgment of the history of
Trogus Pompeius under the title Justinus, Trogi Pompeii Historiarum Philippicarum epitoma de manuscriptis
codicibus emendatior et prologis auctior (Paris, 1581)
- Gesta Dei per Francos (Hanover, 1611) which was a collection of accounts of the Crusades
- Rerum Hungaricarum scriptores varii (Frankfort, 1600)
- Epistolae (letters) were published at Leiden in 1647, and a French translation at Paris in 1668–1670
Gesta Dei per Francos (“God’s Work Through the Franks”)
was published under the Title
Gesta Dei per Francos Sive Orientalium Expeditionum et Regnifrancorum Hierosolimitani Historia. Part 1 consisted
of 13 texts and fragments including
most of the then surviving major narratives of the First Crusade
. Part 2 was taken from