CharlesduFresne, sieurduCange or Ducange (Amiens, December 18, 1610 – Paris, October 23, 1688) was a distinguished philologist and historian of the Middle Ages and Byzantium.
DuCange was a busy, energetic man who pursued historical scholarship alongside his demanding official duties and his role as head of a large family.
DuCange is one of the historians Edward Gibbon cites most frequently in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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DuCange did not thoroughly explain either his techniques or the provenance of his source, however, and subsequent historians could not verify his references in the Archives nationales de France.
Nevertheless, Field includes sections that DuCange transcribed but de Tillemont did not; de Tillemont noted that he did not include the few miracles that had been crossed out in the manuscript before him.
The introduction also sketches the lives of Isabelle and her older brother Louis IX (d.1270), as well as the efforts of their brother, Charles of Anjou, to get Louis canonized and to establish the congenital sanctity of the Capetian royal family.
The late Roman emperors, as we learn from the infallible DuCange, marked each step in the decline of their power and glory by the addition of some new ornament to the resplendent vestments that proclaimed their sacred office and dominion.
Branching off from them, the kings of the tribes who inherited the lands and the claims of the Empire vied with each other in imitating the Roman masters, determined to surpass even them in the theatrical variety and richness of caps and gowns.
The name "mortar-board" is given to the diadem because it is shaped like a mortar-board which serves for mixing plaster, and is bigger on top than on the bottom.
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The earliest life, Vie de Madame Isabel, was written shortly after her death in 1283 by her contemporary Agnes d'Harcourt, the third Prioress of Longchamp (1263-70).
This life survives only in a version edited by DuCange in 1668 based on an exemplar that is unknown and presumably lost.
Par CharlesduFresne, sieurduCange, Conseiller de Roy, Tresorier de France, & General des Finances en la Generalite de Picardie, Paris (Sebastien Mabre-Cramois), 1668.
For Jean d'Autheuil's work for Charles W, see Les journaux du tresor de Charles IV le Bel, ed.
The term used to describe these activities, admortizationeor amortizatione, from admortizare, can mean destruction, completion, or repair; CharlesduFresne, sieurDuCange, Glossarium mediae et infimae Latinitatis, vol.
The directors of the Notre-Dame fabric agency seem to have used the term when referring to both repairs and the completion of work.
