Jean de Hocsem or Jan van Hocsem, Latinized Johannes Hocsemius (1278–1348), was a canon and scholaster of Saint Lambert's Cathedral, Liège.
He was the author of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium, a history of the bishops of Liège from 1247 to 1347, the original manuscript of which is now in the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels.L'Historiographie en Belgique, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, 1935), p. 22. It is one of the major sources for the history of the War of the Cow. A second manuscript survives in the library of Averbode Abbey.Jean de Hocsem, Johannes Hocsemius, Narrative Sources in the Low Countries. Accessed 24 June 2017. A critical edition of the chronicle by Godefroid Kurth was published in 1927 under the title La chronique de Jean de Hocsem.Scans available online at https://hdl.handle.net/2268/90817
In 1341, he wrote a book about canon law, Digitus florum utriusque iuris, one copy of which, in the National Archives (RHCL) in Maastricht, is partly in his own hand.Maastricht, RA : ms. 215 on website mmdc.nl.
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