Sigebert of Gembloux
Sigebert of Gembloux (Sigebertus Gemblacensis; c. 1030 – 5 October 1112) was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a
Biography
He was born near Gembloux which is now in the
After his return from Metz he became a violent imperial partisan in the great struggle between the empire and the papacy that culminated in the
He died at Gembloux on 5 November 1112.[2]
Works
Sigebert's most celebrated work is a Chronicon sive Chronographia, or
The chronicle was very popular during the later Middle Ages; it gained a very high reputation, was circulated in numberless copies, and was used by many writers and found numerous continuators, serving as the basis of many later works of history. Notwithstanding various oversights and mistakes, the industry and wide reading of Sigebert deserve honorable mention. The original autograph manuscript is in the Royal Library of Belgium.[3]
Other works by Sigebert are a life of the Frankish king
He also made a catalogue of one hundred and seventy-one ecclesiastical writers and their works from Gennadius to his own time, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, which mentions his own work.
Sigebert was also a hagiographer. Among his writings in this connexion may be mentioned revisions of the biographies of
Notes
- ^ a b c Löffler, Klemens. "Sigebert of Gembloux." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 3 December 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ a b c "Sigebert of Gembloux", The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature. (James Strong and John McClintock, eds.); Harper and Brothers; NY; 1880
- ^ L'Historiographie en Belgique, exhibition catalogue (Brussels, 1935), p. 21.
- ^ Deploige, Jeroen, "Sigebert of Gembloux", Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, (Graeme Dunphy and Cristian Bratu, eds.) 2016
- ^ It is published in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, iv.
- ^ It is published in Monumenta, iii.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Sigebert of Gembloux". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Sources and references
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sigebert of Gembloux". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 60. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Denys Hay, Annalists and Historians: Western Historiography from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Centuries (London/New York) 1977.
- For Sigebert as the author of De investitura episcoporum, see Jutta Beumann, Sigebert von Gembloux und der Traktat de investitura episcoporum (Sigmaringen) 1976.
- Tino Licht: Untersuchungen zum biographischen Werk Sigeberts von Gembloux (Heidelberg 2005).
- Sigebert von Gembloux: Acta Sanctae Luciae (Heidelberg) 2008 (= Editiones Heidelbergenses 34).
- J.-P. Straus (éd.), Sigebert de Gembloux. Actes des Journées "Sigebert de Gembloux" Bruxelles-Gembloux – 5 et 6 octobre 2012, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2015 (= Textes et études du moyen âge 79) ISBN 978-2-503-56519-4.