Halberstadt episcopal chronicles

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Halberstadt episcopal chronicles are the names of a number of early and high medieval historical works from the Diocese of Halberstadt .

Bishops chronicles ( gesta ) as bishops' history, therefore as a sequence of episcopal life descriptions, can be traced or assumed for Halberstadt - according to historical research - into the end of the 10th century .

The consecration of the Halberstadt Cathedral on October 16, 992 under Bishop Hildeward (968–996) is said to have been the occasion for the writing of an now-lost, oldest bishop's chronicle (H), which was probably written by a cathedral clergyman. He used the so-called Einhardsannalen , the Vita Liudgeri secunda and the history of the Corvey monk Widukind .

The “Halberstädter Fragmentum”, the Quedlinburg annals and Thietmar von Merseburg in his chronicle drew from (H) .

(H) was revised and supplemented several times in the course of the 11th and 12th centuries , the versions (RH1) (around 1050), (RH2) (after 1113) and (RH3) (around 1138/1152) were also created. who in turn used the Annales Quedlinburgenses and the Chronicle of Thietmar. (RH2) was incorporated into the history of the Annalista Saxo and the lost Nienburg annals .

The final editing of the Halberstadt bishop's chronicles that existed up until then is the Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium (GH), which still exists today and was written after 1209 using the world chronicle of Frutolf von Michelsberg and Ekkehard von Aura . The chronicles (RH3) and (GH) increasingly included connections from the history of the empire - not always happily.

Editions

  • Ludwig Weiland (Ed.): Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium. (= MGH SS 23), Hahn, Hannover 1874, pp. 73–123 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Uwe Grieme: On the informative value of diocese chronicles and bishops' catalogs of the Halberstadt diocese in the high and late Middle Ages. In: Concilium Medii Aevi Vol. 3. (2000), pp. 185–203 ( PDF )
  • Kurt-Ulrich Jäschke: The oldest Halberstadt episcopal chronicle (= Central German Research, Vol. 62 / I) , Cologne-Vienna 1970.
  • Christof Römer : Beginning in Halberstadt, not in Osterwieck . To the invention of a founding history of a diocese. Ed .: Bernd Feicke, Jörg Brückner (=  Harz magazine . 67th year = 148th year of the Harzverein's magazine for history and antiquity). Lukas, Berlin / Wernigerode 2015, ISBN 978-3-86732-222-5 , pp. 13-26 .

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