Hugo Falcandus

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Hugo Falcandus was a southern Italian historian from the second half of the 12th century.

Life

Hugo Falcandus obviously had in-depth knowledge of what was going on at the royal court in Palermo and also had the opportunity to inspect files. The author's name "Hugo Falcandus" has only come down to us in a print from the 16th century. There is no generally recognized knowledge about his origin, life dates or his affiliation to one of the political groups in the Norman Kingdom.

The most important work ascribed to him is the Liber de regno Sicilie , which depicts the history of the Kingdom of Sicily between 1154 and 1169. The very negative portrayal of King Wilhelm I had a strong influence on research for a long time. In the handwritten records, the text is accompanied by a historiographically interesting letter to a chamberlain of the Church of Palermo from the time of crisis in the Kingdom of Sicily after the death of Wilhelm II .

In research, several attempts have been made to link the author to a well-known contemporary name (for example with the Sicilian Ammiratus and poet Eugenius of Palermo or Hugo Foucaud, Abbot Hugo V of Saint-Denis ). In 2008 Alexander Franke put forward the thesis that the historical work was written by Petrus von Blois , who should therefore be equated with Hugo Falcandus. Petrus had spent some time at the Sicilian royal court and, according to Franke, was so disappointed with the development there that he anonymously expressed his criticism in the history. However, this view was resolutely contradicted by Rolf Köhn in an essay from 2011, accusing Franke of methodical and factual errors; Köhn, however, suspects the aforementioned Hugo Foucaud behind “Hugo Falcandus”.

Editions and translations

  • La 'Historia' o 'Liber de Regno Sicilie' e la Epistola ad Petrum Panormitane Ecclesie Thesaurarium di Ugo Falcando . A cura di GB Siragusa, Istituto Storico Italiano (Fonti per la storia d'Italia, 22), Roma 1897.
  • Graham A. Loud (Ed.): The history of the tyrants of Sicily by 'Hugo Falcandus' 1154-69 . Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester 1998 (Manchester medieval sources series). [commented English translation]

literature

  • Glauco Maria Cantarella :  Falcando, Ugo. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 44:  Fabron-Farina. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1994, pp. 240-247, [still without knowledge of Hood and Franke].
  • Alexander Franke: On the identity of "Hugo Falcandus" . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 64, 2008, pp. 1–13.
  • Knut Görich : Tyranny and Mercy. Reflections on Hugo Falcandus' perception of conflict. In: Dirk Jäckel and Gerhard Lubich (eds.): Ad personam. Festschrift for Hanna Vollrath's 80th birthday (= studies on pre-modernism. Volume 1). Lang, Berlin et al. 2019, ISBN 978-3-631-79267-4 . Pp. 173-191.
  • Hartmut Hoffmann: Hugo Falcandus and Romuald von Salerno . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 23, 1967, pp. 116–170 ( digitized version ).
  • Gwenyth E. Hood: Falcandus and Fulcaudus, Epistola ad Petrum, Liber de Regno Sicilie. Literary form and author's identity. In: Studi medievali ser. III 40, 1999, pp. 1-41.
  • Rolf Köhn: Once again on the identity of "Hugo Falcandus". In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 67, 2011, pp. 499–541 ( digitized version )
  • Theo Kölzer : Hugo Falcandus . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 5, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 170.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Overview with Alexander Franke: On the identity of "Hugo Falcandus" . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 64, 2008, pp. 1–13, here pp. 2f.
  2. ↑ Overview with Alexander Franke: On the identity of "Hugo Falcandus" . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 64, 2008, pp. 1–13, especially p. 12f.
  3. ^ Rolf Köhn: Once again on the identity of "Hugo Falcandus" . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 67, 2011, pp. 499–541, especially p. 503ff.
  4. ^ Rolf Köhn: Once again on the identity of "Hugo Falcandus" . In: German Archives for Research into the Middle Ages 67, 2011, pp. 499–541, especially p. 514ff.
personal data
SURNAME Hugo Falcandus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norman chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century