Guillaume de Nangis

Guillaume de Nangis (German: Wilhelm von Nangis ; * around 1250; † probably 1300 ) was a French historian and biographer in the 13th century.

Life

Nangis was probably born around 1250 and entered the royal Benedictine abbey of Saint-Denis as a monk at a young age , becoming its archivist. Around the year 1285 he began to write a vita for each of the French kings Louis IX. (Saint Louis) and Philip III. ( Gesta Sancti Ludovici and Gesta Philippi Regis Franciæ ) and a world chronicle ( Chronicon ). These works are a major source of French history in the second half of the 13th century.

His world chronicle follows on from the work of Sigebert von Gembloux, who wrote at the beginning of the 12th century, and only bears his own personal traits from 1112 onwards. From the year 1300 one or more continuators continued the chronicle until the year 1328. For his vita of King Ludwig IX. Nangis used the works of the royal confessor Guillaume de Beaulieu and Gilon de Reims, the latter of which has not survived. He himself based his work exclusively on source study and testimony, since he himself had not met the king personally. As a young monk, he only attended the burial of the king's bones in Saint-Denis in 1271. In addition to the characters of the kings, the description of the fame of the French in arms was generally a concern of Nangis, which is why the biography of Prince Charles of Anjou and his victories against the Hohenstaufen dynasty play a prominent role in his vitae .

literature

• Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye : Mémoire sur la vie et les ouvrages de Guillaume de Nangis et ses continuateurs , in: Mémoires de l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres 8 (1733), pp. 560-579 ( Digitized version ).
• Henri-François Delaborde: Notes sur Guillaume de Nangis , in: Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des chartes 44 (1883), pp. 192–201
• Gabrielle M. Spiegel : The chronical tradition of Saint-Denis (Brookline and Leiden, 1978), pp. 98-108
• Jacques Le Goff : Ludwig the Holy (2000), pp. 306-318
• Wilhelm Kohl :  Wilhelm von Nangis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 1254-1255.

expenditure

Royal vitae:

• M. Daunou in the Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) , Vol. XX (Paris, 1840), pp. 310–465 (Louis IX.) And 466–539 (Philip III.)

World Chronicle:

• M. Guizot: Chronique de Guillaume de Nangis in: Collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France, depuis les origines de la monarchie française jusqu'au 13e siècle 14 (1825)
• M. Daunou in the Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) , Vol. XX (Paris, 1840), pp. 543-582; continued to p. 648
• H. Géraud: Chronicon (Paris, 1843–1844), in two volumes with the texts of the continuers