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Guillaume de Vottem

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Guillaume de Vottem (died 1403), was prior of the Benedictine Abbey of St James the Less, in Liège.[1] A chronicle of Liège from 1402, which survives in a 16th-century manuscript now in the Royal Library of Belgium, has been ascribed to his authorship.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ursmer Berlière, "Le chroniqueur Guillaume de Vottem, prieur de Saint-Jacques, à Liége", Bulletin de la Commission Royale, Ser. 5, vol. 4 (1894), pp. 95-106.
  2. ^ L'Historiographie en Belgique, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, 1935), p. 22.