Richer from Senones

Richer von Senones (* around 1190, † around 1266) was a chronicler in the 13th century.

Richer was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Pierre von Senones , located in the Lorraine Vosges . In 1218 he was sent to the court of Emperor Frederick II in Würzburg as an emissary from his abbey to negotiate the release of Duke Theobald I of Lorraine . Richer later made further trips to various places in Lorraine and Alsace as well as to Saint-Denis . In the history of the monastery of Senones, which he wrote in Latin and is completely preserved, and which goes back to 1264, he recorded not only his travel experiences and landscape descriptions, but also the political events of the day in France and the Holy Roman Empire .

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• Richer Senonensis Historia abbatiae Senonensis , ed. by Johann Friedrich Böhmer in: Fontes rerum Germanicarum 3 (Stuttgart, 1853)
• Richeri Gesta Senoniensis ecclesiae Liber I – V , ed. by Georg Waitz, in: Georg Waitz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 25: Gesta saec. XIII .. Hannover 1880, pp. 249–345 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

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• Richerus monachus Senoniensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"