Richard of San Germano

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Richard von San Germano (* around 1165 ; † May 7, 1244 ) was a public notary in the city near the monastery of Montecassino . In addition to his official work in San Germano between 1186 and 1232, he has also been in the financial administration of Emperor Frederick II since 1220 . He has held a master's degree since 1214 . His presence at the IV Lateran Council is documented.

He is best known for his chronicle , which is handed down in two partly complementary editorships and reports on the history of the Kingdom of Sicily between 1208 and 1244. His representations always take the perspective of his home region. His reports are sober and repeatedly backed up with extensive quotations from documents and laws as well as letters. This makes his chronicle one of the most important sources for the history of Regnum under the reign of Frederick II. The text of the Assises of Capua and the Assize of Messina is only passed down through his chronicle.

expenditure

  • Monumenta Germaniae Historica Scriptores XIX, 1866, pp. 321-386 ( online edition ).
  • Ignoti monachi Cisterciensis S. Mariae de Ferraria Chronica et Ryccardi de Sancto Germano chronica priora repperit in codice ms. Bononiensi atque nunc primum edidit Augustus Gaudenzi. Adiectis ejusdem Ryccardi chronicis posterioribus ex editione Georgii Pertzii , ed. by Augusto Gaudenzi, (Monumenti storici. Seria 1: Cronache, vol. 3), Naples 1888.
  • Ryccardi de Sancto Germano notarii Chronica , ed. by Carlo Alberto Garufi , (Rerum Italicarum Scriptores. Nuova Edizione, Vol. 7.2), Bologna 1936–1938.
  • La cronaca. Riccardo da S. Germano , ed. by Giuseppe Sperduti, (Collana di studi storici medioevali, vol. 2), Cassino 1999.

literature

  • Hans Martin Schaller : Richard v. San Germano . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 7, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7608-8907-7 , Sp. 824-825.
  • Alfred Winkelmann: The relationship between the two chronicles of Richard von San Germano , in: Mitteilungen des Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 15 (1894), pp. 600–613.
  • Heinrich Loewe, Richard von San Germano and the older editors of his chronicle , Magdeburg 1894.
  • Paolo Romano: Riccardo di san Germano e la sua cronaca , in: Archivio storico per la Calabria e la Lucania 12 (1943), pp. 133-141.
  • Edoardo D'Angelo: Style and sources in the chronicles of Richard von San Germano and Bartholomaeus von Neocastro , in: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries 77 (1997), pp. 437–458.
  • Jaap J. van Moolenbroek: Het klaaglied over het debacle van de kruistocht in Egypte (1221) in de kroniek van Ryccardus van San Germano , in: Millennium 14 (2000), pp. 42-56.

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SURNAME Richard of San Germano
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richardus de Sancto Germano; Ryccardus de Sancto Germano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION historian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1165
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1244