Alberic of Trois-Fontaines
Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (French: Aubri or Aubry de Trois-Fontaines; Latin: Albericus Trium Fontium) (died c. 1252) was a medieval Cistercian chronicler who wrote in Latin. He was a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne. He died after 1252.
Chronicle
In 1232 Alberic began his Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium, which describes world events from the Creation to the year 1241.
His sources included Books 45-49 of Helinand of Froidmont's Chronicon.
Alberic's chronicle was published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1874.[1]
References
- ↑ ‘Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium’, ed. Paulus Scheffer-Boichorst, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum, vol. 23 (Hanover, 1874), pp. 631-950.
Bibliography
- Reindel, K., 'Petrus Damiani bei Helinand von Froidmont und Alberich von Troisfontaines', Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 53,1 (1997), 205-224.
- Schmidt-Chazan, "Aubri de Trois-Fontaines, un historien entre la France et l'Empire", Annales de l'Est, t.36, 1984, p. 163-192
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