Peter of Zittau

Peter of Zittau ( Czech Petr Žitavský; * 1275 in Zittau, † 1339 in King's Hall ) was a Bohemian writer and chronicler since 1316 and abbot of the Cistercian monastery King's Hall.

Career

A native of the then part of Bohemia Zittau Peter stepped 1297-1305 in the south of Prague, the Cistercian Monastery King's Hall, which was founded in 1292 by the Czech King Wenceslas II. 1305 he took part in the funeral of King Wenceslas Zbraslav monastery church part that was so grave to lay the Přemyslids. For 1309 Peter is as chaplain of the first abbot Conrad of Erfurt (Abt 1292-1312 and 1314-1316 ) demonstrated whom he accompanied in the following years on many trips, so in 1309 the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order Citeaux after. 1313 he participated in the Italian campaign of the Emperor Henry VII (see Emperor Henry pilgrimage to Rome ).

After Abbot Conrad was in 1316 resigned from his office, Peter was the third abbot of King's Hall. As abbot he had close connections to the Bohemian royal house. During his tenure, he led the installation of a Diplomatoriums of King's Hall, which consists of 158 records. Under the title " Liber secretorum Aulae regiae " he wrote a collection of miracles that should have happened in the King's hall since the founding of the monastery. As a further writings Latin sermons and religious seals have survived.

The him often attributed authorship of the treatise " Malogranatum " is not used.

Zbraslav Chronicle

Became known Peter of Zittau mainly by the begun by his predecessor Otto von Thuringia and further performed by him "King Saaler Chronicle " ( " Chronicon Aulae regiae ", " Zbraslav Chronicle "), which is one of the most important late medieval historical sources Bohemia. The Chronicle is dedicated to the Waldsassener abbot John and consists of three books:

  • The Book I covers the years 1253-1316. It contains 130 chapters and a biography of King Wenceslas II ( Chapters 1-51 wrote Otto von Thuringia Abt 1312-1314 ).
  • The book includes the years 1335-1337 and II consists of 34 chapters,
  • The Book III covers the years 1335-1337 and consists of 15 chapters.

The Chronicle also provides an important source for the German Reich history dar. addition to the history of the monastery, she describes what is happening in the whole of Bohemia and attacks for the period 1306-1337 and beyond. Be shown in addition to Wenceslas II and Emperor Henry VII and King John of Luxembourg and his wife Elizabeth, whose confessor was Peter and the particularly promoted the monastery King's Hall. The ( 1306 extinct in the male line ) dynasty of the Přemyslids is very positive and represented the acquisition of Bohemia by the House in 1310 Luxembourg detail. The Chronicle is also important because Peter has been a contemporary of a credible eyewitness.

The written in Medieval Latin chronicle, which was partially written in Leonean verses, also has a high literary value. On the German translation worked until his death in 2009, Joseph Bujnoch. He finished only book I. A publication of his work, together with a new translation of Book II and III is currently being prepared.

Francis of Prague used the Zbraslav Chronicle as a source for the written by him Chronicle of Prague. This in turn served by Benesch Weitmühl as a source for the continuation of the Chronica Boemorum of Cosmas of Prague.

Works

  • Chronicon Aulae regiae. In: Fontes Rerum austriacarum. Scriptores VIII, 1875
  • Petra Žitavského Kronika Zbraslavská. In: Fontes Rerum Bohemicarum. IV, 1884, pp. 1-337
  • Liber secretorum Aulae regiae
  • Formula Domini Petri Abbatis Aulae regiae composita ... In: Cistercian chronicle. 49, 1937, pp. 353-358
  • Two books with 131 sermons ( not edited; Delay in: JB Schneyer: Repertory of Latin sermons of the middle ages 4, 1972, pp. 807-817. )
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