Steterburg annals

Steterburg Abbey around 1654/1658, engraving by Matthäus Merian

As Steterburger Annals (Latin: Annales Stederburgenses ) is the in the late 12th century, probably by Gerhard von Steterburg († 1209), authored goods history of the congregation Steterburg referred. Gerhard had been provost of the women's monastery in Steterburg, a part of today's Salzgitter-Thiede , in Lower Saxony , since 1164 .

description

The chronicles describe events between the years 1000 and 1195, the year Henry the Lion died . Parts of the notes were written by Gerhard himself, others arranged by him.

The annals report in detail almost exclusively on the history of the monastery. But they are also one of the most informative sources about the fate of Henry the Lion after 1177 , at the time of the beginning conflict with Frederick I Barbarossa , albeit in a one-sidedly welf-friendly representation.

The chronicles, together with copies of documents and excerpts from other annals , were compiled in a 14th-century copial book of the monastery. The copy book belongs to the holdings of the Wolfenbüttel State Archives and is dated to around 1316 by the Herzog August Library .

reception

The Steterburg Annals are the only source that gives the age of Henry the Lion and reports that he died in 1195 at the age of 66. Consequently, he was born around 1129/1130. On the other hand, recent research assumes that Heinrich was born in 1133/1135.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz used the Steterburg annals for his work Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium (1707–1711), a collection of sources on the history of Guelph and Lower Saxony.

output

• Annales Stederburgenses , in: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 16: Annales aevi Suevici. Hannover 1859, p. 197 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

literature

• Eduard Winkelmann: The Saxon Annalist. Publisher Franz Duncker, Berlin 1864
• Wilhelm Wattenbach:  from Steterburg, Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 758 f.
• Horst Eckert: GW Leibniz - Scriptores rerum Brunsvicensium. Publishing house Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt a. M. 1971. ISBN 3-465-00563-5 . ISBN 978-3-465-00563-6 .

Web links

• Chronicon Stederburgense in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Website of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Wattenbach:  von Steterburg, Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 758 f.
2. ↑ Lothar Mikulla: Princely opposition to imperial violence in the 12th century , Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2003, p. 121
3. ↑ Karl Jordan: Heinrich the Lion. Eine Biographie , 4th edition, Munich 1996, p. 25
4. ↑ Joachim Ehlers: Heinrich the lion. Biography , Munich 2008, p. 47ff
5. ↑ Karin Feldmann: Duke Welf VI. and his son - The end of the southern German Welfenhaus , Diss., Tübingen 1971, pp. 13-15