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John Bellenden
Scottish writer
Also known as: John Ballantyne, John Ballenden, John Ballentyne, John Bannatyne
Quick Facts
- Bellenden also spelled:
- Ballenden, Ballentyne, Ballantyne, or Bannatyne
- Flourished:
- 1533–87
- Flourished:
- 1533 - 1587
John Bellenden (flourished 1533–87) was a Scottish writer whose translation of Hector Boece’s Scotorum historiae had a profound influence on Scottish national feeling. Educated at the universities of St. Andrews (Scotland) and Paris, he was in the service of James V as clerk of accounts from the King’s earliest years and at his request translated the Historiae, which had just appeared in Paris (1526). It was published as The History and Chronicles of Scotland in 1536, prefaced by an original poem entitled A Proheme to the Cosmographe and later reprinted separately under the various titles of Vertue and Vyce and ...(100 of 229 words)