Editing Alain Chartier (section)

== Life ==
Alain Chartier was born in [[Bayeux]] to a family marked by considerable ability. His eldest brother [[Guillaume Chartier (bishop)|Guillaume]] became [[bishop of Paris]]; and Thomas Chartier became notary to the king. Jean Chartier, a monk of St Denis, whose history of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]] is printed in vol. III. of ''Les Grands Chroniques de Saint-Denis'' (1477), is also said to have been a brother of the poet.<ref name="McRae2004">{{cite book|author=Joan E. McRae|title=Alain Chartier: The Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZ8AAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA3|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-88853-4|pages=3}}</ref> Alain studied, as his elder brother had done, at the [[University of Paris]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Edward J. |title=Alain Chartier: His Work and Reputation |publisher=Wittes Press |year=1942 |location=New York}}</ref> He then went to work for the Duke Louis and [[Yolande of Aragon|Yolande of Anjou]], whose daughter Marie was engaged to the youngest son of Charles VI.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Chartier |first=Alain, activeth century |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1205808 |title=The poetical works of Alain Chartier |date=1974 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |others=James Laidlaw |isbn=0-521-07940-3 |location=London |oclc=1205808}}</ref> He followed the fortunes of the [[Dauphin of France|dauphin]], afterwards [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]], acting in the triple capacity of clerk, notary, and financial secretary.<ref name="EB1911" /> He later would become a member of several important ambassadorial trips, serving as orator and secretary for Charles VII, travelling to Vienna and Buda to see [[Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor|Sigismund]]; to Venice to appear before the Senate, to Rome to deliver a letter to the Pope, and to Scotland to negotiate the marriage of the daughter of James I, [[Margaret of Scotland, Dauphine of France|Margaret]], then not four years old, with the dauphin, afterwards [[Louis XI of France|Louis XI]].<ref name=":0" /> He appears to have taken holy orders and was named canon of Paris, rector of the parish of Saint-Lambert-des-Levées, and even Archbishop of Paris. He died in [[Avignon]] in 1430; the reason for his presence there remains a mystery. An epitaph for his tomb was commissioned by his brother Guillaume Chartier, but the stone has not survived.