Flodoard from Reims

Flodoard von Reims (* 894 in Épernay ; † March 28, 966 in Reims ) was a West Franconian chronicler .

Life

Flodoard studied in Reims and became a canon at Reims Cathedral . As such he became confidante of Archbishops Herive and Seulf . In 936 he was sent to Rome by Archbishop Artold of Reims , where he was ordained a priest by Pope Leo VII . During the dispute between Hugo von Vermandois and Artold about the archbishopric, he stood by Artold's side and twice forfeited his benefice and was placed under house arrest for five months. After the universal synod of Ingelheim 948 had confirmed Artold as archbishop, Flodoard became his most important advisor. It was long assumed that Flodoard retired to a monastery around 952 and dedicated himself entirely to his literary work. Recent research refutes entry as well as an alleged abbot or even bishop ordination.

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His position as archivist of the Archdiocese enabled him to write a "History of the Cathedral of Reims" ( Historia Remensis ecclesiae ), which is now considered one of the most important works of the 10th century. From the sources available to him , he compiled his own chronicle , in which he quoted most of the originals in full. His annals, created between 919 and 966, are just as important . They are valued by historians as an excellent source of political and ecclesiastical history in western France because of their reliability.

Editions and translations

• Annales
  • Philippe Lauer (Ed.): Les Annales de Flodoard . Collection des textes pour servir à l'étude et à l'enseignement de l'histoire 39. Paris: Picard, 1905. Available on the Internet Archive (Latin with French introduction and French footnotes)
  • Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 3: Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici. Hanover 1839, pp. 363-408 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • PL 135 (Documenta Catholica Omnia)
  • Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach (transl.): The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919–966 . Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 9. Broadview Press, 2004. ISBN 1-55111-650-2 .
  • François Guizot (transl.): Siège de Paris par les Normands, poème d'Abbon [etc.] . Collection des Mémoires relatifs a l'Histoire de France. Paris, 1824. 69-162. Available from Gallica

• Historia Remensis ecclesiae
  • Martina Stratmann (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 36: Flodoard von Reims, Historia Remensis ecclesiae. Hanover 1998 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • Georg Waitz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 13: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars I. Hannover 1881, pp. 405–599 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  • PL 135 (Documenta Catholica Omnia)
  • M. Lejeune (transl.): Flodoardi Historia remensis ecclesiæ. Histoire de l'église de Reims . Reims, 1854-1855. Available on Google Books .
  • François Guizot (transl.): Histoire de l'Église de Rheims . Collection des Mémoires relatifs a l'Histoire de France. Paris, 1824. Available from Gallica
  • Flodoard: Histoire de l'église de Reims. 2 volumes, (Sources de l'histoire de France), Paleo 2004, ISBN 2-84909-052-2 .

• Three poems collectively known as De Triumphis Christi : De triumphis Christi sanctorumque Palaestinae , De triumphis Christi Antiochiae gestis , De triumphis Christi apud Italiam
  • PL 135 (Documenta Catholica Omnia)

literature

• Peter Christian Jacobsen: Flodoard from Reims. His life and his poetry “De triumphis Christi” (= Medieval Studies and Texts. Vol. 10). Brill, Leiden 1978, ISBN 90-04-05407-3 . Google book detailed scientific illustration
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Flodoard of Reims. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 61.
• Michel Sot: Un historien et son Église au Xe siècle: Flodoard de Reims. Fayard, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-213-03184-3 .
• Edward Roberts: Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019, ISBN 978-1-316-51039-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Flodoard von Reims in the catalog of the German National Library
• Flodoardus canonicus Remensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Flodoard in the Catholicy Encyclopedia

Remarks

1. ↑ Martina Stratmann (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 36: Flodoard von Reims, Historia Remensis ecclesiae. Hanover 1998 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
2. ↑ Flodoardi annales