Berthold of Reichenau

Berthold of Reichenau (* 1030, † March 11, 1088 ) was an important chronicler of the time of King Henry IV Berthold was a pupil of Hermann of Reichenau, the Chronicle of the World, he continued writing.

Hermann's chronicle dates back to the year 1054. Berthold This year is his chronicle. A first version of Berthold 's chronicle is then sufficient by the year 1066, in which it stops working. A second version starts off with an extensive biography of his teacher and then up to the year 1080th Again, the text abruptly breaks off.

The first version is narrated rather than handwriting, but only by a print from the year 1529. From the second version, there are two slightly differing manuscripts, one in the Austrian National Library in Vienna, a second in the archives of the Benedictine College Sarnen.

Since both versions represented superficially different positions, the former is more loyal to the king - neutral, the second unique per Gregorian, they were held for two earlier works by various chroniclers. Galt first the first, shorter version than the " original Berthold " update - the second was a " Swabian annalists " attributed - brought a style critical study of the historian Bernhard Schmeidler, 1938, the exact opposite result: The second version was " original Berthold ", the first of which was now a " anonymous Kaiserchronik " that should have served as a source Berthold. Only the historian Franz -Josef Schmale was able to demonstrate the dual authorship of Berthold recently.

Problems remain the ostensibly opposing political positions of the two versions. These are, for example,. apparent from the description of the election of the year 1061 In the first, obviously loyal to the king - neutral version Berthold accepted the choice of Cadalus of Parma, so Henry candidates, and called the candidate of the reform movement, Anselm of Lucca, a usurper:

The second version, however, brands the choice Cadalus as simony and takes a stand per Anselm:

The opposing political positions of the two versions can be explained by the time of writing, as well as the situation of the monastery of Reichenau. Berthold is the chronicle have updated in the first version by annual registrations, so even before the far-reaching reforms of Gregory VII inserting. Berthold, whose monastery of Reichenau was at this time as an imperial monastery under royal protection, that seems to represent the position of Henry. Yet he calls already in this version, the investiture Bishop of Bamberg Ricimann in 1065 simony, probably as an effect of the reformist efforts of the German popes at the time of Henry III. But this is already clear that Berthold's position is not as loyal to the king. This occurs in the second, later revised significantly to light: Henry IV had in the meantime the monastery two abbots, Meginward and Ruotbert, imposed on the monastery Simonists opinion. Under the following abbot, the re-elected and loyal to the Pope by the Convention Ekkehard the monastery took a change of party by the King to the Pope - and also as anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden. A change, the Berthold has obviously supported.

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