Robert Fabyan

Elizabeth M. Sturgeon (Mount Saint Mary's University)

Ed. by J A Roe, University of York
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.03: English Writing and Culture: Renaissance (Elizabethan and Jacobean periods) , 1485-1625.
Vol. editors: William M. Hamlin (Washington State University), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University), Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)

Dates

Born c. 1450
Died 1513
Activity c. 1470-1513

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler

Resources

Fabyan's Works

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Robert Fabyan (d.1513), author of the

Concordance of Histories

, which later became

The New Chronicles of England and France

(1516), also known as

The Chronicle of Fabyan

(1542), was a successful sixteenth-century London merchant who became a chronicler of England and France. His main literary accomplishment was to collate a citizens’ history of England with a more traditional chronological account of the mythological stories of Brutus and Albion and the history of monarchy and the nobility. As a member of the Draper’s Company, Fabyan was prosperous enough in his profession to eventually take on the expenses of public office, where he came to hold the positions of civil servant and magistrate. His career in civil service did not end there, for Fabyan also held the offices of Sheriff of…

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Citation: Sturgeon, Elizabeth M.. "Robert Fabyan". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 10 March 2014 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1469, accessed 21 November 2024.]