Matthias of Neuchâtel

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Matthias von Neuenburg (also Mathias ; Latinized Matthiae Nuewenburgensis , * around 1295 in Neuenburg am Rhein ; † shortly after 1364) was a late medieval German chronicler .

Life

Matthias studied canon law at the University of Bologna , where he also obtained his master's degree (magister decretorum). From the list of enrolled students it is deduced that Matthias had contacts with Eberhard von Kyburg and Peter Münch . In 1327 he was a legal advisor at the spiritual court of Basel . After the resignation of Basel Bishop Hartung Münch , he worked in the same position for the Bishop of Strasbourg , Berthold von Buchegg , from 1329 . Matthias had met von Buchegg in Basel, where he was a member of the Teutonic Order. In 1335 and again in 1338 he traveled on an official mission to the Curia in Avignon (see Avignon Papacy ).

Matthias is the author of a Latin chronicle , which, among other things, followed the work of Martin von Troppau . Although not particularly sophisticated from a literary point of view, the chronicle is one of the most important sources for the period from 1245 to 1350 with the focus on the Upper Rhine , and from 1328 mainly on Strasbourg . It is handed down in several editorial offices and provided with several additions; however, the additions after 1355 probably did not come from Matthias himself. In older research, it was also long doubted that Matthias was the author of the work at all (this is what Albert II von Hohenberg was supposed to be), which is now considered undisputed. But Matthias was able to rely on good sources. The focus of the presentation is the political history, but also the aristocratic world, the outbreak of the plague and pogroms against the Jews are described.

marriage and family

Matthias came from a patrician family in the city of Neuchâtel. As an episcopal official he was a cleric. But he only had minor consecration , which meant that he was not bound to celibacy . He married Elisabeth from the influential Basel family of the Münch . There are two known sons:

  • Mathias (clergyman)
  • Heinzmann (banished from Strasbourg in 1370)

Editions and translations

  • Adolf Hofmeister (ed.): The chronicle of Mathias of Neuchâtel . MGH Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series Vol. 4.1. Berlin 1924/1940 ( online ).
  • The Chronicle of Mathias of Neuchâtel . The historians of prehistoric Germany 84. Translated by Georg Grandaur. With an introduction by Ludwig Weiland. 3rd edition Leipzig 1912 ( online edition from 1899 ; PDF; 6.7 MB).

literature

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Remarks

  1. ^ Konstantin Schäfer : Mathias von Neuenburg. In: The Markgräflerland. Issue 1/1956, pp. 11–19, here p. 15. Digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  2. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Volume 3, Heidelberg 1919, pp. 201-202 online
personal data
SURNAME Matthias of Neuchâtel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mathias of Neuchâtel; Matthias de Nuwenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH around 1295
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuchâtel on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH after 1364