Ademar of Chabannes
Ademar von Chabannes (* 989 in Chabannes (now part of Saint-Sylvestre ); † 1034 ) was a French monk and chronicler who wrote the first annals of Aquitaine since late antiquity , but he also appeared as a composer and a literary forger.
Life
Ademar was educated in the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Martial in Limoges and spent his life there or in the monastery of Saint-Cybard in Angoulême .
He wrote chronicles, his main work is the Chronicon Aquitanicum et Francicum or Historia Francorum in three books, which deals with the Frankish history of the legendary King Faramund up to the year 1028.
The first two books are nothing more than a copy of the Gesta regum Francorum des Aimoin von Fleury , while the third book, which covers the period from 814 to 1028, is of considerable historical value. It was published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores , Volume IV (Hanover and Berlin, 1826-1892). He also wrote the Commemoratio abbatum Lemovicensium basilicae S. Martialis apostoli (848-1029) and the Epistola ad Jordanum Lemovicensem episcopum et alios de apostolatu S. Martialis , both published by Migne in the Patrologia Latina , volume CXLI (Paris, 1844-1855) .
He died in 1034, probably in Jerusalem , where he was going on a pilgrimage .
Fakes
He welcomed the evolving legend that Saint Martial, the 3rd century Bishop of Limoges who Christianized the Limousin , actually lived centuries earlier and was one of the apostles . And he added the more than meager information about the alleged apostle Martial to a falsified biography, as if it came from Martial's successor, Bishop Aurelian, and then composed an “Apostolic Mass” in Ademars to support his claims his own handwriting has been preserved (Paris Bibliothèque nationale de France , MS Latin 909) and thus became the oldest autograph of Western music. The local bishop and abbot appear to have supported his work, since the mass premiered on August 3, 1029.
Unfortunately for Ademar, the liturgy was blown up by a traveling monk, Benedict von Chiusa , who called the improved Vita Martials a provincial forgery and blasphemy. Ademar's reaction was to put forgery on forgery: He invented a council of 1031 that confirmed Martial's apostolic status, as well as a papal letter to go with it. The truth of this pathological tissue of lies was not unraveled until the 1920s by Louis Salt ; the Catholic side ignored the discoveries until the 1990s.
By then, Ademar was successful. In the late 11th century, Martial was actually worshiped as an apostle in Aquitaine.
expenditure
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Ademari Cabannensis opera omnia. Brepols, Turnhout 1999 ff.
- Volume 1: Chronicon. Edited by Pascale Bourgain, Richard Landes and Georges Pon (= Corpus Christianorum . Continuatio Mediaevalis. Volume 129). 1999, ISBN 2503042910 .
- Volume 2: Opera liturgica et poetica. Musica cum textibus. Edited by James Grier (= Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. Volume 245). 2 volumes, 2012, ISBN 9782503543987 .
Web links
literature
- Richard Landes, Relics, Apocalypse, and the Deceits of History: Ademar of Chabannes, 989-1034 Harvard University Press, 1995
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ademar of Chabannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French monk and chronicler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chabannes |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1034 |