Hugh of Poitiers[1] (died 1167) was a Benedictine monk of Vézelay Abbey and chronicler.
His Historia Vizeliacensis monasterii was written from about 1140 to 1160.[2] Besides being a rather partisan account of the affairs of the Abbey, it is an important source for the history of France in its period. [citation needed] It was written for Abbot Ponce of Vézelay (1138–1161), who was brother to Peter the Venerable of Cluny Abbey.[3]
He also wrote the Origo et historia brevis Nivernensium comitum, about the county of Nevers.[4][5]
References edit
- John Scott and John O. Ward (translators) (1992), The Vezelay Chronicle: And Other Documents from Ms. Auxerre 227 and Elsewhere
Notes edit
- ^ Hugues, Hugo Pictavinus, Pictavinienis.
- ^ Myths & Legends of Burgundy, King Arthur in Burgundy, France
- ^ Francis Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (1979), p. 411.
- ^ Oakley, p. 340.
- ^ Constance Brittain Bouchard, Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (2001), p. 42.