Annales mosellani

The Annales mosellani (or Moselle lenses, AM for short) are a part of the annals of the Frankish Empire; They cover the years 703-798, are short and unliterary, but have a wide range and are considered reliable.

Johann Martin Lappenberg discovered the Annals in a manuscript of the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, and gave them in 1869 for the Monumenta Historica Germaniae out. On the origin, he determined the upper Moselle basin, on the take the annals resistant cover, and named it accordingly. Wilhelm von Giese Brecht suggested later, they assign the iroschottische community that had been established by Pippin the Middle in St. Martin Monastery in Cologne. A side note that references Folio 81 to the Domesday Book ( 1086 ), defines the time of origin of the manuscript, which is the only surviving copy of the Annals, to the late 11th or early 12th century established and northern France as the source.

The text of the Annales mosellani up to the year 785, including the Annales laureshamenses ( Lorsch Annals ), which also begin in the year 703, and the Fragmentum chesnii, which begins in the year 768, identical. The first half of the entry for 786 in the Annales laureshamenses and the Fragmentum chesnii identical, but lacking in the Annales mosellani that do not include the year 786. As a consequence, all other items are shifted by one year forward in the Annales mosellani. Probably come all three compilations from the same manuscript, which was created 785 in the Lorsch Abbey, which was present for the Annales laureshamenses and the Fragmentum chesnii a later version of the summary information for the first half of the year 786 already contained. Heinrich Fichtenau however, assumes that the Annales mosellani based on the Annales laureshamenses.

The information in the Annales mosellani are not limited to the Frankish Empire. For the year 713 they mention the death of the Abbess of Whitby and Ælfflæd of King Ealdwulf of East Anglia. The information is also contained in the Annales laureshamenses, Annales alemannici, Annales nazariani and the Annales guelferbytani, the only sources for the death Ealdwulfs. It is possible that the Abbey Whitby had reported the death notices, and the mother Ealdwulfs Here With who had retired to the Abbey of Chelles, received the message.

Output

• MGH Scriptores, XVI (Hannover 1869), pp. 491-99