Richer of Senones

Richer Senones (* 1190, † by 1266 ) was a chronicler in the 13th century.

Richer was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint- Pierre of Senones, located in the Lorraine Vosges. In 1218 he was sent as an emissary of his abbey to Würzburg to the court of Emperor Frederick II, to conduct negotiations on the release of the Duke Theobald I of Lorraine. Later undertook Richer more trips to different places in Lorraine and Alsace, as well as to Saint - Denis. In the Latin written by him and completely preserved monastic history of Senones, which extends to the year 1264, he stopped beside his travel experiences and landscape descriptions also define the political agenda in France and the Holy Roman Empire.

Work

  • Richer senonensis Historia abbatiae senonensis, ed. Johann Friedrich Böhmer in: Fontes Rerum Germanicarum 3 (Stuttgart, 1853)
  • Richeri Gesta Senoniensis Ecclesiae Liber I- V, ed. by Georg Waitz, in: Georg Waitz et al (eds): Scriptores ( in folio ) 25: Gesta SAEC. XIII .. Hannover 1880, pp. 249-345 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
Senones, Vosges Vosges Mountains Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor Theobald I, Duke of Lorraine Lorraine (region) Integrated Authority File
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