Walter the Chancellor

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Walter the Registrar ( lat . Galter (i) us Cancellarius ; French . Gauthier le Chancelier ; † after 1122) was Chancellor of Principality Antioch . He wrote a literary work called Bella Antiochena .

Life

Little is known about his life. Historians disagree about its origins. He was either French, as the many apparent Gallicisms in his Latin suggest, or Italo-Norman , since he probably came from Salerno to Antioch in the wake of Roger .

Under the Prince Regent of Antioch, Roger of Salerno, he became Chancellor of Antioch between 1112 and 1114 . In 1119 he took part in the Battle of Ager Sanguinis , in which Roger of Salerno was killed. He himself was captured and temporarily incarcerated in Aleppo .

Bella Antiochena

His book Bella Antiochena ("Antiochian Wars") reports in two volumes on the wars of the Principality of Antioch against the Seljuks in the period from 1114 to 1122. The first volume deals in particular with the severe earthquake of 1114 and the victories of Rogers of Salerno in the battle of Sarmine (1114) and at the Battle of Tell Danith (1115). The second part reports in particular about the misfortune of Rogers of Salerno, who was defeated and killed in the battle of Ager Sanguinis, and about his "executioner", the Emir Ilghazi . The chronicler Wilhelm von Tire used Walter's work as a source.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacques-Paul Migne: Dictionnaire historique, geographique et biographique des croisades. In: Encyclopédie Théologique. J.-P. Migne, Paris 1852, p. 117.
  2. ^ Auguste Molinier: Gualterius cancellarius, administrateur de la principauté d'Antioche. In: Les Sources de l'histoire de France. Des origines aux guerres d'Italie (1494). Volume 2.1, A. Picard et fils, Paris 1902, p. 289.

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personal data
SURNAME Walter the Chancellor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galterius cancellarius; Gauthier le Chancelier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chamberlain of Antioch
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1122