Johannes Sleidanus or Sleidan was a Luxembourgeois historian and annalist of the Reformation. Wikipedia
Born: 1506, Schleiden, Germany
Died: October 31, 1556 (age 50 years), Strasbourg, France
Books: J. Sleidani De Quatuor Summis Imperiis: Libri Tres, The Memoirs of Philip de Comines: Containing the History of Lewis XI. and Charles VIII. of France, and of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, to which Princes He was Secretary : as Also the History of Edward IV. and Henry VII. of England : Including that of Europe for Almost Half the Fifteenth Century : with a Supplement, as Also Several Original Treaties, Notes and Observations : and Lastly, The Secret History of Lewis XI. Out of a Book Call'd The Scandalous Chronicle : and the Life of the Author Prefix'd to the Whole, with Notes Upon It, by the Famous Sleidan, The Key of Historie. Or, A Most Methodicall Abridgement of the Foure Chiefe Monarchies, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome, Etc. Translated by Abraham Darcie., and more