Hugeburc
Hugeburc (* presumably in the years 730 to 740 in the southern English town of Wessex ; † unknown) was a nun in the wake of St. Walburga . She wrote the lives of St. Willibald von Eichstätt and St. Wunibald , from whose family she came. These two vitae are the most important early medieval sources for the diocese of Eichstätt .
Live and act
Hugeburc came shortly after the death of Saint Wunibald († December 18, 761) in the wake of Saint Walburga via Antwerp to Heidenheim (Middle Franconia) . There she witnessed the miracles that took place at the burial of St. Wunibald.
Hugeburc entered the double monastery in Heidenheim, which was run by St. Walburga . On June 23, 778 she heard the story of St. Willibald about his pilgrimage to the Holy Land , which she then recorded in St. Willibald's Vita. After the Vita Willibaldi Hugeburc wrote the Vita of St. Wunibald down.
The Vita Willibaldi traces the pilgrimage that Willibald led through large parts of the known world: southern England, the Longobard Empire , Rome , pilgrimage sites in Asia Minor and Syria , the holy sites of Palestine , Constantinople , Monte Cassino , Bavaria , the Frankish Empire . The Vita Wynnebaldi describes Wunibald's life and the miracles that occurred at his grave. Hugeburc gives Walburga as sources for this vita, as well as relatives, friends, students and servants of Wunibald, as well as herself as an eyewitness to the miracles.
Hugeburc's devotion to the two saints speaks from the Viten. She described herself in humble terms, pointing to the weakness of her sex and youth. Another expression of this modesty could be that it has hidden its authorship. It was not until 1931 that some puzzling lines were deciphered, which are in an early manuscript from the late 8th or early 9th century between the Vita Wynnebaldi and the subsequent Willbalds Vita. In later manuscripts this text was probably left out because it was incomprehensible.
The four lines are:
Secdg quar. quin. npri. sprix quar. nter.
cpri. nquar. mter. nsecun. hquin. gsecd
bquinrc. qarr. dinando. hsecdc. scrter.
bsecd. bprim.
Instead of the vowels, Latin ordinal numbers, also abbreviated, are inserted, but the consonants are written. So "pri" (= 1st) stands for "a", "secd" (= 2nd) for "e", "ter" (= 3rd) for "i", "quar" (= 4th) for "o" and "quin" (= 5.) for "u". The following reading results in the Latin text:
Ego una Saxonica nomine Hugeburc ordinando hec scribebam.
"I, one of the Saxons, named Hugeburc, wrote this according to the order."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Codex latinus monacensis 1086 of the Munich State Library, published in MGH SS XV.
- ^ Bernhard Bischoff : Who is the nun from Heidenheim? , in: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches , New Series, Vol. 18, 1931, 387f.
- ↑ Andreas Bauch: Sources on the history of the diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: Biographies of the early days. , Eichstätt, Johann Michael Sailer Verlag (1962), 23
literature
- Andreas Bauch: Sources on the history of the Diocese of Eichstätt. Volume 1: Biographies of the early days. , Eichstätt, Johann Michael Sailer Verlag (1962)
Web links
- Publications about Hugeburc in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
- Latin text in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Vol. 15.1
- Illustration from the original manuscript with the "secret writing", beginning in the fourth line at the top left
- Huneberc of Heidenheim: The Hodoeporican of St. Willibald, 8th Century English translation by CH Talbot in the Internet Medieval Source Book
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hugeburc |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Benedictine in the wake of St. Walburga |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 730 and 740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wessex |
| DATE OF DEATH | 8th century or 9th century |