Dudo of Saint-Quentin
Dudo of Saint- Quentin, dean of Saint -Quentin, where he was born around 965, was a Norman chronicler of the 11th century.
He was sent to 986 of Count Adalbert I of Vermandois to Duke Richard I of Normandy. After the successful completion of his mission, he remained some years in Normandy. During a second stay in Normandy, he wrote at the invitation Richards his history of the Norman De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum. In addition, we only know of him that he died before 1043.
Dudo seems to have used any documents to leave his work 1015-1030 - its source was the oral tradition, which he recorded primarily in a half-brother Richard, Raoul d' Ivry, Count of Bayeux out of the house Ivry. Consequently, gives his story, which he dedicated to Bishop Adalbero of Laon, the courtly point of view again, giving him the part of critics such as Ernst Dümmler or Georg Waitz won an accusation of being untrustworthy. Others, such as Jules Lair or John Steenstrup, emphasize the value of the work of Norman history, without overlook the sometimes legendary character.
Although Dudo Virgil and other Latin authors knew his Latin is campy and dark. Written alternately in prose and verse with various poetic meters, the Historia into four parts, the history of the Normans from 852 until the death of William Richards 996 Jumièges, Wace, Robert of Torigni, William of Poitiers and Hugh of Fleury reports have largely in their own chronicles based on Dudo. The Historia was first published in 1619 in Paris by André Duchesne in his Historia Normannorum Scriptores antiqui. In addition, there is another edition in the Patrologia Latina, Volume CXLI, Paul Migne Jacques (Paris 1844) and one of de Lair (Caen 1865), which is the best hands down.
Work
- De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum, Éd. Jules Lair, Caen, F. Le Blanc Hardel, 1865
- Jacques Paul Migne: Patrologiae cursus completus. In 1880. # 141 Sp 607-758.