# Nostradamus The first fact about Nostradamus in a public catalog is a missing medical degree and a cheap almanac, not a marble seer who scheduled later wars. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus places birth on 14 December 1503 at Saint-Rémy, Agen practice in the 1530s without a taken degree, plague work at Aix and Lyon in 1546–47, published prophecy from about 1547, Centuries in 1555, a summons to Catherine de Médicis to cast her children’s horoscopes, a 1564 physician-in-ordinary title under Charles IX, and death at Salon on 1/2 July 1566. National Geographic at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-was-nostradamus-plague-astrology-predictions independently frames the almanacs of the 1550s as the living reputation-machine. BnF data at https://data.bnf.fr/fr/11917886/nostradamus/ and Gallica at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j carry later printed Prophéties after the 1568 Lyon line; those images are evidence of the book, not 4 May 1555 type. Wellcome at https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus holds the medical-craft neighbourhood of the Traité. Catherine at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-de-Medici and Charles IX at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-IX-king-of-France bound the court title. Children’s nativities are a personal-data heading. Faculty expulsion is a labour gate. What the page must not say: that a quatrain is a fulfilled forecast of Napoleon, Hitler, or 11 September 2001; that 1568 is 1555; that rose-powder changed 1546 mortality; that Charles IX created a ministry. Offsets that survive the legend: plague practice as presence, the Traité as vernacular craft, the 1564 ordinary-physician title as a named court medical office of limited reach. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1555 publication and on the 1564 title in standard lives, medium on the exact Montpellier folio and on chart contents, low on clinical effect. Related people are Catherine, Charles IX, César de Nostredame as dedicatee-son, Julius Caesar Scaliger in the Agen years, Anne Ponsarde, Macé Bonhomme. On method: one book is one Fact. Almanac is not centuries. Horoscopes are not the plague year. Later omnibus commentaries are reception. Jewish-origin family conversion is background in Jewish Virtual Library at https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nostradamus, not a Fact he filed as an act. The Albi 1555 scan at https://archive.org/details/les-propheties-albi-1555 is a later public carrier of a rare first-edition line; it does not make him the scanner. Keep Salon death as biography, not as a welfare instrument: a natural death is not a royal killing. The useful question is which dated 1550–1564 instruments still move polarisation, personal data, labour [gates](/people/bill-gates), and limited health office under his name without laundering later headlines into quatrains. On source-distance: Gallica’s public Prophéties at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j follow the 1568 Rigaud line; they prove a printed book, they do not prove 4 May 1555 type metal. Wellcome at https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus is a medical-library neighbourhood for the Traité, not a 1546 ward book. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus and National Geographic at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-was-nostradamus-plague-astrology-predictions disagree in emphasis and still converge on almanac, centuries book, court, and 1564 title. Where they do not print a folio, this catalog does not invent one. A weak graph is the honest result: seven lifetime Facts, a handful of related people, own article only, empty news. Padding to thirty Facts would require attributing later commentators to the living apothecary. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions and split rows: 1529-01-01 faculty expulsion; 1546-01-01 Aix/Lyon plague practice; 1550-01-01 almanac; 1555-05-04 Les Prophéties; 1555-06-01 Traité; 1556-01-01 Catherine nativities; 1564-01-01 Charles IX title. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. ## Dated facts - Charles IX appoints Nostredame physician-in-ordinary during the 1564 royal progress in Provence. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-charles-ix-physician-1564. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-IX-king-of-France, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. - 1556: Catherine de Médicis summons Nostredame to court to explain almanac threats and to cast horoscopes of her children. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-catherine-horoscopes-1556. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-de-Medici, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. - 1555: A printed Traité des fardemens et confitures issues apothecary recipes for cosmetics, preserves, and a plague powder. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-traite-fardemens-1555. Sources: https://wellcomecollection.org/search/works?query=Nostradamus, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. - 1555: Macé Bonhomme at Lyon issues Les Prophéties, a first book of rhymed quatrains grouped in centuries. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-propheties-1555. Sources: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k8701168j, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. - An almanac for 1550 opens a series of annual vernacular prognostications under the name Nostradamus. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-almanac-1550. Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-was-nostradamus-plague-astrology-predictions, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. - Nostredame practises during the 1546–47 plague outbreaks at Aix and Lyon as later lives tell it. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-aix-lyon-plague-practice-1546. Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-was-nostradamus-plague-astrology-predictions, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. - 1529: The Montpellier medical faculty expels Nostredame as an apothecary, a manual trade barred by statute. https://factrail.ai/facts/nos-montpellier-expulsion-1529. Sources: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/nostradamus, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nostradamus. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/nostradamus