Roger of Wendover

Roger of Wendover

Infobox Person
name= Roger of Wendover
birth_date=Unknown
birth_place= Wendover(?), England
dead=dead
death_date= death date|1236|5|6|mf=y
death_place= St Albans Abbey, St Albans, England
occupation= Chronicler

Roger of Wendover (died May 6, 1236), probably a native of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, was an English chronicler of the 13th century. At some uncertain date he became a monk at St Albans Abbey; afterwards he was appointed prior of the cell of Belvoir, but he forfeited this dignity in the early years of Henry III, having been found guilty of wasting the endowments. His latter years were passed at St Albans, where he died on May 6, 1236.

Biography

He is the first of the important chroniclers who worked at St Albans. His most well known chronicle is called the "Flores Historiarum" ("Flowers of History"). The chronicle is based in large part on material which already existed at St Albans. The actual nucleus of the early part of Roger’s "Flowers of History" is supposed to have been the compilation of John de Cella (also known as John of Wallingford), who was abbot of St Albans from 1195 to 1214, although that is inconclusive. John’s work started from the year 1188, and was revised and continued by Roger up to 1235, the year before his death. Roger claims in his preface to have selected "from the books of catholic writers worthy of credit, just as flowers of various colours are gathered from various fields." Hence he called his work "Flores Historiarum"—a title appropriated in the 14th century to a long compilation by various hands. Begun at St Albans, it was finally completed at Westminster based upon the Chronicle of Matthew Paris continuing to the year 1326. The work was long ascribed to one "Matthew of Westminster", but it is now known that no actual chronicler of that name ever existed. Roger of Wendover’s work is, however, now valued not so much for what he culled from previous writers as for its full and lively narrative of contemporary events, from 1216 to 1235. [ [http://www.bartleby.com/211/0919.html Volume I, Chapter IX, Section 19] of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature]

The "Revelation of St Nicholas to a monk of Evesham" was composed in 1196 but the author is unknown. In an abridged form, it is found in Roger of Wendover’s "Flores Historiarum" under the year 1196. It is a curious religious allegory, treating the pilgrimage of a soul from death through purgatory and paradise to heaven. The monk, conducted by St Nicholas, is taken from place to place in purgatory, where he meets and converses with persons of various ranks, who relate their stories and their suffering. From purgatory he advances slowly to paradise, and finally reaches the gates of heaven; after which he awakes. [ [http://www.bartleby.com/212/1310.html Volume II, Chapter XIII, Section 10] of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature]

Works

Roger's work is known to us through one 13th century manuscript in the Bodleian Library (Douce manuscript 207), a mutilated 14th century copy in the British Library (Cotton manuscript Otho B. v.), and the edition prepared by Matthew Paris which forms the first part of that writer's "Chronica Majora" (ed. Henry Richards Luard, Rolls Series, 7 vols). The best edition of Roger's works is that of H. O. Coxe (4 vols, London, 1841-1824); there is another (from 1154) in the Rolls Series by H. G. Hewlett (3 vols, 1886-1898).

Notes

References

* Luard's prefaces to vols. i, ii, iii and vii of the "Chronica Majora"
* "Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores", Band xxviii

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