Annales Xantenses

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The Annales Xantenses , Xantener Annalen or Xantener Jahrbücher are an annals work that was created in the East Franconian Empire of the 9th century .

The origin of the first part on the Lower Rhine, probably in Gannetia , is now considered certain, the attribution to the cleric Gerward is very likely. While fleeing from the Normans , Gerward probably came to Cologne with the manuscript and died there. Around 870, an unknown second author continued work on the annals until 873 and also revised the old part. The beginning of this revision is set for the year 861. Both authors treat their respective rulers ( Lothar II. And Ludwig the German ) with sympathy, but the Annales Xantenses are not imperial annals of the Middle Ages. A connection to the court chapel is not evident from any of the authors. Use by a later historian is not verifiable.

Georg Heinrich Pertz discovered the Annales Xantenses in a manuscript in the British Museum in 1827. The chosen name of the work goes back to the fact that the author directly experienced the aforementioned devastation of Xanten by the Normans. However, there is no indication of the location. The Annales Xantenses generated little research interest in the past few decades.

Text output

  • Annales Xantenses. In: Bernhard von Simson (ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi 12: Annales Xantenses et Annales Vedastini. Hanover 1909, pp. 1–39 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Sources on the Carolingian Empire history. Part 2: St. Bertin yearbooks, St. Vaast yearbooks , Xantener yearbooks , edit. by Reinhold Rau, 3rd, opposite the 2nd by one night. Ed., Darmstadt 2002, pp. 339–371.

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