John of Hexham
John of Hexham (c. 1160 – 1209) was an
From the title, as given in the only manuscript, we learn John's name and the fact that he was prior of
Even for northern affairs his chronology is faulty; from 1140 onwards his dates are uniformly one year too late. Prior Richard is not the only author to whom John is indebted; he incorporates in the annal of 1138 two other narratives of the Battle of the Standard, one in verse by the monk Serlo of Wilton,[1] another in prose by Abbot Aelred of Rievaulx; and also a poem, by a Glasgow clerk, on the death of Somerled.
The one manuscript of John's chronicle is a late 12th-century copy; Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 139. The best edition is that of Thomas Arnold in Symeonis monachi opera, vol. 2 (Rolls Series, 1885). There is an English translation in Joseph Stevenson's Church Historians of England, vol. 4 (London, 1856).
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the Davis, Henry William Carless (1911). "John of Hexham". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). p. 449.
- ^ Jan Öberg (ed.). Serlon de Wilton: Poèmes latins. Stockholm, 1965.
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