Sébastien Mamerot

From July 1472 to August 1478, he was a canon and cantor at the Collegiate Church of Saint-Étienne in Troyes.

In 1466, he wrote Romuléon, based on translating the original Romuleon, a work commissioned by Louis de Laval.

In 1472, Louis de Laval asked his clergyman and secretary, Mamerot, to write a chronicle of the Crusades.

That work, entitled Passages d'outremer, was a collection of various stories, from the legendary conquest of Jerusalem by Charlemagne to the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396 and Siege of Constantinople (1394–1402).

Later on, another text was added to the beginning of the manuscript, a French translation of a letter written by Sultan Bayezid II to King Charles VIII, which was sent from Constantinople on July 4, 1488.

Sébastien Mamerot presenting Passages d'outremer to Louis de Laval