Annales Palidenses
Pöhlder Annals or Annales Palidenses is the name for a medieval, written in Latin historical source from the second half of the 12th century. The chosen name annals is somewhat misleading because it is actually a chronicle.
Origin
The name derives from the origin, the monastery Pöhlde in Pöhlde am Harz. The Pöhlder annals are in two manuscripts, of which the Oxford of the signature Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud. Misc. 633 in the original handwriting, while the Göttingen Göttingen manuscript, University Library, 5a is a transcript from the 17th century.
As a writer, is commonly called the monk Theodore ( Theodorus monachus). Thus we find the following entry: " Hucusque Idatius episcopus; deinde Theodorus describit annales ". ( " Up to this point Bishop Idatius; . Theodor then writes the Annals " ) However, there is an approach by which that authority is a Abschreibefehler from the work of Siegbert of Gembloux. Thus, the author would be unknown.
Content
The contents of the Pöhlder annals consists of an extensive World Chronicle, as well as a list of emperors and popes since the birth of Christ. The Chronicle is, in typical medieval, out of Christian salvation history and secular history down to the last quarter of the 12th century.
The Chronicle part ends with a succinct entry for 1182: ". . Anno 1182 circa festum sancti Jacobi dux in exilium abiit " ( In 1182 at the feast of St. James (July 25 ) was the Duke Henry the Lion in exile ). The subsequent list shows all the popes and emperors since the birth of Christ, with fairly regular entries, up to the Emperor Frederick II in 1220. Then just follow a few, sporadic Entries made until 1421, however, concern only the monastery Pöhlde or the Duchy of Brunswick.
Compared with other Saxon annals and chronicles from the same formation time immediately similarities catches your eye. So the Pöhlder annals are very similar to the Magdeburg annals and chronicles the Lüneburg. This similarity is due to the fact that the said works have the same sources, such as Ekkehard of Aura, Siegbert of Gembloux and the Hildesheimer annals used. This similar texts can be reconstructed, which are preserved only in fragments - so were the Pöhlder Annals in the 1870s as the historian Paul Scheffer - Boichorst in restoring the Paderborn annals.
Another conclusion that can be drawn from the content, is that the entries were not timely, but made far between. Thus, the conquest of the city Crema is mentioned by Frederick I Barbarossa in 1159, although it took place only in 1160, the death of the antipope Victor IV is mentioned in 1160, although he died before 1164.
Importance
The Pöhlder annals are an important source for the (low ) Saxon history of the 12th century, with the very precise information on Heinrich deserve the lion's special attention. Also of great importance are the Emperor Tell that are included here. Thus the legend of the faithful women to find the vineyard and the legend of chaste marriage of Emperor Henry II and his wife Gwendolyn in the annals. Also the nickname of King Henry I., " the Fowler ", is mentioned for the first time.
Edition and translation
An edition of the Annals is Pöhlder by Georg Heinrich Pertz in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (MGH ) in the Department Scriptores (SS), Volume 16 from 1859 before. It was created using the Göttingen manuscript, since the original was only rediscovered in 1877 by Georg Waitz. The handwriting was considered lost, because it was assumed erroneously that she was in Cambridge, while the original was in Oxford. The edition lost by this find nothing of their relevance, since the Göttingen manuscript proved to be very accurate copy. A German translation developed Eduard Winkelmann in 1863 as part of the series The historian of German antiquity ( Volume 61 ).