Pegau Annals

The Pegau Annals (Latin Annales Pegavienses ) are a historical representation from the Pegau Monastery in what is now western Saxony from the 12th and 13th centuries.

Content and origin

The first part of the annals was written around 1149. It contains a history of the Pegau monastery and above all the life of Wiprecht von Groitzsch up to his death in 1124. This is followed by information on the general history based on the Erfurt Peterschronik and the Magdeburg annals .

After 1149, the chronicle was continued by two other writers until 1227.

meaning

The annals provide a detailed account of the early history of the monastery and the life of the founder Wiprechts von Groitzsch, which offer an insight into the conditions of this time, which unfortunately has not been preserved for this time in this area.

Some detailed information on the events under Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa is also given for the period from 1149.

Handwriting

The manuscript of the Pegau Annals is in the Leipzig University Library, where it came from the secularized Pegau Monastery in the 16th century.

Editions

Latin

• Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 16: Annales aevi Suevici. Hannover 1859, pp. 234–270 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

literature

• Hans Patze : The Pegau annals, the rise of Wratislaws as king of Bohemia and the beginnings of the city of Pegau. In: Yearbook for the history of Central and Eastern Germany . Volume 12. 1963. pp. 1-62.
• Ludwig Adolf Cohn: The Pegau Annals from the 12th and 13th centuries. In: Communications of the history and antiquity research society of the Osterland . Volume 4. 1858. pp. 472-533; separate Oldenburg 1858.

Web links

• Annales Pegavienses Repertorium "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"
• Tylo Peter: Wiprecht von Groitzsch. His life according to the Pegau yearbooks 1994