Hugo von Flavigny

Hugo von Flavigny , Latin Hugo Flaviniacensis , French Hugues de Flavigny (* 1065 near Verdun , France , † after 1111 ) was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Middle Ages .

Raised in the Abbey of Saint-Vanne , he had to flee with their convent in 1085 across the diocese and imperial borders to Saint-Bénigne in Dijon . Since 1096 he was abbot in Flavigny near Autun , from where he was ousted by his opponents in 1099/1100. He seems to have joined the imperial party, at least around 1111 he received an abbey in Verdun . After that his track is lost.

Hugo of Flavigny wrote in part one of the birth of Christ until the year 1102 reaching Chronicle , which especially the church history in the diocese of Verdun and the struggle between Emperor Henry IV. And Pope Gregory VII. On the basis of the letters dealt with in detail. Hugo's own handwriting has been preserved; after this Georg Heinrich Pertz published the chronicle in 1848 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores , Vol. 8, pp. 280–503).

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hugo von Flavigny. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1138-1139.
• Patrick Healy: The chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny. Reform and the investment contest in the late eleventh century . Ashgate, Aldershot 2006, ISBN 0-7546-5526-1 .
• Mathias Lawo: Studies on Hugo von Flavigny (Monumenta Germaniae Historica, writings, vol. 61). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 2010; ISBN 978-3-7752-5761-9 .
• Kurt Reindel :  Hugo von Flavigny. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 16 ( digitized version ).
• Wilhelm Wattenbach:  Hugo von Flavigny . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 319 f.

Web links

• Hugo Flaviniacensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library