Wein van Cotthem

Wein van Cotthem (c. 1390 – July 1457) (alternative spellings: Iwein, Iweijn or Weinken; French: Ywanus de Cotthem) was a Brussels clerk, chaplain and chronicler.

He has been identified as the man who wrote a continuation of the Brabantsche Yeesten in the years 1430-1432. He added two books to the first five by Jan van Boendale, with a total of 12,000 verses. His autograph, now in the Royal Library of Belgium, would provide fodder for many later chroniclers.

The ducal court accounts first mention him in 1402 as a chorister (a jonghen clercken, singers op die capelle). He was ordained a priest and from 1429 was given the responsibility of the chapel of Dry Borren in the Sonian Forest, where he said mass four times a week. Nevertheless, he had two daughters: one by a nun in Brussels and another, Hélin, by his maidservant. He lived there in a house built against the keep.

He was a student of Petrus de Thimo and Emond de Dynter. Later he probably also became canon of St. Vincent's Church (Sint-Vincentiuskerk) in Zinnik.