Roger of Wendover

Roger (von) Wendover (* in Wendover , Buckinghamshire ; † May 6, 1236 ) was an English monk and chronicler in the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans .

From around 1204 (possibly later) Roger von Wendover wrote the world chronicle Flores Historiarum , which tries to depict the events from the creation of the world to the year 1234. The chronicle was continued from 1239 by Matthäus Paris as Chronica Major .

expenditure

Latin

• Ed. V. Henry Coxe (1841-44): Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 , Vol. 4 , Appendix .
• Ed. V. Henry Gay Hewlett, in the Rolls series , (1886-89): Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 , Vol. 3 .

English translation

• John Allen Giles (1849): Vol. 1 , Vol. 2 .

literature

• Vivian H. Galbraith : Roger Wendover and Matthew Paris (= Lecture on the David Murray Foundation in the University of Glasgow. 11, ZDB -ID 1211044-9 = Glasgow University Publications. 61). Jackson, Glasgow 1944, (Reprint. University of Glasgow, Glasgow 1970).
• Richard Kay: Wendover's last annal. In: The English Historical Review . Volume 84, No. 333, 1969, pp. 779-785, JSTOR 563421 .
• Achim Krümmel: Roger von Wendover († 1236). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . Volume 8: Rembrandt - Scharbel. Bautz, Nordhausen 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 551.
• Sean McGlynn: Roger of Wendover and the wars of Henry III, 1216-1234. In: Björn KU Weiler, Ifor W. Rowlands (Ed.): England and Europe in the reign of Henry III. (1216-1272). Ashgate, Aldershot et al. a. 2002, ISBN 0-7546-0467-5 , pp. 183-206.
• Armando Quaglia: La regola francescana in Ruggero di Wendover e Matteo di Parigi. In: Miscellanea francescana. Vol. 80, 1980, ISSN  0026-587X , pp. 167-178.
• Karl Schnith: England in a Changing World (1189–1259). Studies on Roger Wendover and Matthäus Paris (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages. 7). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-7772-7404-6 (also: Munich, University, habilitation paper, 1972).
• Karl Schnith: Roger Wendover, OSB († 1236) . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 7, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-7608-8907-7 , Sp. 944.