Guillaume Alexis was a French Benedictine monk and poet of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, nicknamed the "Good Monk". His abbey was that at Lire, in the diocese of Évreux, He became prior of Bussy, in Perche. In 1486 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and died there, a victim of Ottoman persecution.
Writers born in the 1420s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1425 to 1486 · aged 61
Written about in
5 languages
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