Abstract The Bring-Jerrard normal form, achieved by Tschirnhaus transformation of a regular quintic, is a reduced type of the general quintic equation with quartic, cubic and quadratic terms omitted. However, the form itself is an equation opposing the mandatory characteristics of the iterative chaotic maps. Given the form represents the fixed-point equations, it is possible to turn it into a map of iterations. Under specific conditions, the quartic map achieved by transformation from the quintic normal form exhibits chaotic behavior for real numbers. Depending on the system parameters, the new map causes period-doubling until a complete chaos within a very short range. Basically, in this paper, we present a new one-dimensional chaotic map derived from the Hermite–Kronecker–Brioschi characterization of the Bring-Jerrard normal form, which exhibits chaotic behavior for negative initial points. We also included the brief analysis of the Bring-Jerrard generalized case which is the parent system of the chaotic map we proposed in this paper.