Chronica regia Coloniensis

King Conrad III. Miniature from the Cologne royal chronicle (13th century), Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale , Ms. 467, fol. 64v.

The Chronica regia Coloniensis (German: Kölner Königschronik ) is a historical work created in the 12th and 13th centuries.

It is conceived as an imperial history , but also contains a lot of information of regional historical relevance, in particular from the area of the Electorate of Cologne.

The text was compiled from several surviving manuscripts and edited in 1861 by Karl August Friedrich Pertz (1828–1881) in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (MGH SS 17). Karl Platner translated it into German on this basis. Wilhelm Wattenbach published the second, revised and enlarged edition in 1896.

For a long time it was believed, as can be read in the author's lexicon and in the lexicon of the Middle Ages , that a Cologne canon was the author of the original version. Manfred Groten locates the origin of the chronicle in his 1997 essay in the Siegburg monastery ; Carl August Lückerath contradicted this, however.

Because in the Cologne royal chronicle the Albigensians are always referred to as Beggini , it was the source basis for the z. B. The thesis advocated by Herbert Grundmann , but now considered disproved, that the term Beguines is derived from the Albigensians.

literature

Annales Colonienses maximi . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 17: Annales aevi Suevici. Hanover 1861, pp. 723–847 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
Wilhelm Wattenbach: The Kölner Königschronik, based on the edition of the Monumenta Germaniae, translated by Dr. Karl Platner . Second edition. Leipzig 1896 ( The historians of the German prehistory. Volume 69).
Norbert Breuer: Historical image and political imagination in the Cologne royal chronicle such as the "Chronica S. Pantaleonis" , (Diss.) Düsseldorf 1966.
Manfred Groten: Monastic historiography: Siegburg and the Cologne royal chronicle. In: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 61 (1997), pp. 50–78.
Carl August Lückerath (ed.): Cologne royal chronicle and chronicle from St. Pantaleon (Latin and German). Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004 ( Selected sources on the German history of the Middle Ages. Volume 21)
(The work has not yet been published as of November 2014.)
Carl August Lückerath: Coloniensis ecclesia, Coloniensis civitas, Coloniensis terra. Cologne in the Chronica regia Coloniensis and the Chronica S. Pantaleonis . In: Yearbook of the Cologne History Association 71 (2000), pp. 1–41.

especially for the Brussels manuscript:

Anna Skriver: The baptistery of St. Gereon in Cologne , Cologne 2001.

therein Chapter 2.1: The "Chronica Regia Coloniensis" in Brussels , pp. 117–127

and Chapter 3.1: Comparison of the paintings on the blending fields of the baptistery of St. Gereon with the miniatures of the "Chronica Regia Coloniensis" , pp. 163–167.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Groten (1997), p. 56.
↑ Lückerath (2000), p. 2 and p. 9.
↑ Jürgen Udolph / Jörg Voigt: Origin and distribution of the term 'Begine' from a linguistic and historical point of view, in: J. Voigt u. a. (Ed.), The Beguines in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Friborg / Stuttgart 2015. pp. 15–40, here pp. 18–20.

[1] Groten (1997), p. 56.

[2] Lückerath (2000), p. 2 and p. 9.

[3] Jürgen Udolph / Jörg Voigt: Origin and distribution of the term 'Begine' from a linguistic and historical point of view, in: J. Voigt u. a. (Ed.), The Beguines in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times. Friborg / Stuttgart 2015. pp. 15–40, here pp. 18–20.