Rigord

Rigord or Rigordus (* 1150, † by 1209) was a French chronicler.

He probably came from the Languedoc and became a pastor in Argenteuil and then in Saint- Denis. Here he wrote a brief chronicles of the kings of France ( regis Francorum chronographus ), which should serve the visitors of Saint- Denis as a leader.

He was commissioned to write a biography of the French king Philip II. The Gesta Philippi Augusti is a major source for the life of this king, the Rigord of his coronation in 1179 documented by the year 1206. In the view that the king a the "Reich " was " lent " it to him the imperial title " Augustus ", the nickname for the king (August) was. Also surround the king with an aura of the miraculous powers by describing three of this supposedly performed miracles. This was taken after the death of the king of his followers as an argument for a canonization process, but this was rejected by the Roman Curia because of temporary excommunication of the king because of his years of bigamy.

Rigords work was continued in 1214 by William the Breton, who described the biography of the years 1206 to 1220. The work was included in the Grandes Chroniques de France in 1825 and translated into French by M. Guizot ( in Collection of mémoires relatifs à l' histoire de France). RF Delaborde it edited 1882/95 in Oeuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton.

Werkausgaben

  • Gesta Philippi Augusti, ed. Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens the Gauls et de la France 17 (1878 ), pp. 4-62 ( Rigords work, Latin )
  • Gesta Philippi Augusti, ed. Léopold Delisle in: Recueil des Historiens the Gauls et de la France 17 (1878 ), pp. 62-116 (Continued William Britos, Latin )

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  • Chronicle ( literature)
  • Author
  • Monk ( Christian)
  • Historian of the Middle Ages
  • Literature ( Medieval Latin )
  • Frenchman
  • Born in the 12th century
  • Died in the 13th century
  • Man
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