Bernat Fenollar
Bernat Fenollar, also Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar (Penàguila, Valencian Community, 1438 – Valencia, 28 February 1516) was a poet, cleric and chess player from Valencia, Spain. He was an abbot (the title "Mossèn" was often given to clergymen), had a position both in Valencia Cathedral and the University of Valencia as a professor of mathematics.
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Bernat Fenollar
Francesc Fort · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Name
- Bernat Fenollar
- Born
- 1438
- Birthplace
- Penàguila, Kingdom of Valencia
- Died
- February 28, 1516
- Place of death
- Valencia, Kingdom of Valencia
- Occupation
- cleric, math professor, poet and chess player
- Nationality
- Crown of Aragon
- Languages
- Catalan
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Bernat Fenollar, also Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar (Penàguila, Valencian Community, 1438 – Valencia, 28 February 1516) was a poet, cleric and chess player from Valencia, Spain. He was an abbot (the title "Mossèn" was often given to clergymen), had a position both in Valencia Cathedral and the University of Valencia as a professor of mathematics.
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Key facts
• Name — Bernat Fenollar • Other Names — Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar • Born — 1438 • Birthplace — Penàguila, Kingdom of Valencia • Died — February 28, 1516 • Place of death — Valencia, Kingdom of Valencia • Occupation — cleric, math professor, poet and chess player
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Scachs d'amor
Scachs d'amor
He is one of the authors of Scachs d'amor or Chess of Love, a poem based on a chess game between Francesc de Castellví and Narcís Vinyoles, while Bernat Fenollar comments and establishes the rules. It is the first documented game played with the modern rules of chess, at least concerning the moves of the queen and bishop.
Selected works
Selected works
• Història de la passió de N.S. Jesu Christi en cobles, Valencia: 1493 • Lo procés de les olives, Valencia: 1497 • Les trobes en lahors de la Verge Maria, Valencia: 1974, • The poem Scachs d'amor (1475), Murcia: 2015,
Identity
Identity
Bernat Fenollar is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation chess player. Recorded as writer, university teacher, poet, cleric and chess player. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the heading Mossèn (Bernat de) Fenollar. His recorded language was Catalan. His recorded confession was Catholic Church.
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1438
Bernat Fenollar was born on 1 January 1438.
1516
Bernat Fenollar died on 28 February 1516.
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Penàguila.
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Valencia.
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- “Bernat Fenollar”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q24059: Bernat Fenollar
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- 1.Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Bernat Fenollar. www.enciclopedia.cat.
- 2.Ricardo Calvo, Valencia Spain: The Cradle of European Chess, Presentation to the CCI (Chess Collectors International) May, 1998, Vienna, Austria.
- 3.Francesco di Castellvi vs Narciso Vinyoles, Valencia, Spain, 1475, Chessgames.com.
- 4.Sobrer, Josep Miquel. The English translation of Scachs d'Amor. www.scachsdamor.org. Scachs d'Amor Org.
- 5.au:Fenollar, Bernat, on WorldCat.
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