Chronica regia Coloniensis

The Chronica regia Coloniensis (German: Kölner King Chronicle ) is a arisen in the 12th and 13th century historical work.

It is designed as imperial history, but also contains a wealth of information from regional historical relevance, especially in the field of the Electorate of Cologne.

The text was compiled from several surviving manuscripts, in 1861 by Karl Pertz ( 1828-1881 ) in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae (MGH SS 17) edited. Charles Platner translated it on this basis into German. Wilhelm Wattenbach led them in 1896, the second revised and enlarged edition.

It was believed for a long time, so it can be read also in the writer lexicon and the lexicon of the Middle Ages that a canon of Cologne had been the author of the original version. Manfred Grote locates the origin of the Chronicle in his essay of 1997 to the monastery of Siegburg; the Carl August Lückerath has, however, rejected.