Background
Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (died 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family.
Trivet was born in Somerset and was the son of Sir Thomas Trevet (died 1283), a judge who came of a Norfolk or Somerset family.
Nicholas became a Dominican friar in London, and studied first at Oxford and later in Paris, where he first took an interest in English and French chronicles.
Little is known of the greater part of his life except that at one time he was prior of his order in London, and at another he was teaching at Oxford, also that he was at Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Lagioia, Alessandro (ed). Nichola Trevet. Commento all"Oedipus di Seneca (Bari: Edipuglia, 2008) (Quaderni di Invigilata lucernis, 35).
A member of Nicholas" family was Sir Thomas Trivit (died October 1383), a soldier of repute, who saw a good deal of service in France.