The Reichsannalen are a class of annals composed anonymously in the Carolingian Empire throughout the 9th century. They first appeared under Pepin the Short in 741 and became ubiquitous at monasteries throughout the empire in the following decades. They were not official court annals, but they often bear the bias of having been written in one regnum or another.
17-702: The Annales Petaviani ( AP ) is one of the so-called "minor annals group", three related Reichsannalen , year-by-year histories of the Carolingian empire composed in Latin . They are named after the former owner of the manuscript, the French Jesuit Denis Pétau (1583–1652), whose name, in Latin, is Dionysius Petavius. The standard critical edition of the Annales is that of Georg Pertz in
34-629: A set of minor Reichsannalen ( annals of the Carolingian Empire ) covering the years 703 to 798. Its entries are brief and unliterary, but broad in scope and generally accurate. They have only partially been translated into English. J. M. Lappenberg discovered the Annales in a manuscript of the National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg , and produced the editio princeps ( first edition ) in 1869 for
51-485: Is a reference to mors Alflidae et Halidulfi regis , the deaths of Ælflæd , Abbess of Whitby , and Aldwulf , King of East Anglia . This notice is also contained in the Annales laureshamenses , Annales alemannici , Annales nazariani , and Annales guelferbytani , and these are the only sources for the date of Aldwulf's death. It is possible that the abbey of Whitby had disseminated news of their deaths, and that Aldwulf's mother, Hereswith , living her retirement in
68-600: Is said that many thousands of men died. In remorse he relinquished the kingdom"). The Annales also provide evidence of an Anglo-Saxon presence in Marseille , the great seaport of Merovingian Gaul , when they note under the year 790 the death of the son of Botto, an English negotiator in Marseille. Reichsannalen The Reichsannalen are distinguished from earlier and later classes of annals by their coverage of supranational and not just local events; they covered
85-793: The Annales Vedastini appear and form the basis for the Chronicon Vedastinum , a universal chronicle continuing until 899. In the 10th century, the Reichsannalen died out: Flodoard of Reims is the only real example, writing from 919 to 966. [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " Ecclesiastical Annals ". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Annales Mosellani The Annales mosellani or mosellenses ( AM ) or Moselle Annals are
102-603: The Domesday Book (1086) on folio 81 seals the era of composition of the manuscript, which preserves the only known copy of the annals, to the late eleventh or early twelfth century in northern France. Textually, the years up to and including 785 are identical in the Annales mosellani , the Annales laureshamenses (which also begins in 703), and the Fragmentum chesnii (which only begins in 768). The first half of
119-969: The Liber Pontificalis , the Annales Mosellani , and the Annales Laureshamenses . During the reign of Charlemagne , Reichsannalen proliferate: the Annales Laurissenses minores (c.806), the Annales Maximiani (810–811) and the Annals of Flavigny (816) crop up. The Annales Fuldenses , the most famous of them all, appear in the reign of Louis the Pious . They have a regional, East Frankish character, but purport to record national events. The author must certainly have been in touch with
136-631: The Monumenta Germaniae Historica . The first entry in the Annales Petaviani is for the year 687 and records the Battle of Tertry . There is then a gap until 708, when the annals begin again and continue to 799 in chronological order. Those entries through to 771 were compiled from earlier annals, such as the Annales sancti Amandi and the Annales mosellani , and do not comprise an independent source. Together with
153-532: The Monumenta Germaniae Historica . His analysis placed their composition in the monasteries of the upper Moselle basin (like Metz and Gorze ), to which they constantly refer and after which he named them. Later, Wilhelm von Giesebrecht suggested they were written by the Hiberno-Scottish monastic community established by Pepin of Heristal at Saint Martin's in Cologne . A marginal reference to
170-584: The Abbey of Lorsch in 785, though the Annales laureshamenses and the Fragmentum may have been copied from an intermediate version containing a brief extension to 786. On the other hand, Heinrich Fichtenau believed the Annales mosellani depended on the Annales laureshamenses . The Annales mosellani are not restricted in their coverage to the Carolingian Empire. Under the year 713 there
187-537: The Abbey of Montecassino in 747, leaving power in the hands of his brother, Pepin the Short . The Annales claim that Carloman's conversion to the religious life came about because his conscience was unsettled by his defeat in Alemannia , where he lost thousands of men: Karolomannus intravit Alamanniam ubi fertur quod multa hominum millia ceciderit. Unde compunctus regnum reliquit ("Carloman entered Alemannia where it
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#1732765584216204-464: The Annales sancti Amandi , the Annales Petaviani are the primary source of the entries for 741–88 in the Annales laurissenses maiores . Both of these may have been based on an earlier exemplar originally compiled contemporaneously with events at the convent of Sankt Martin in Cologne . For the years 771–99 the Annales Petaviani are an independent and contemporary source. They are the only source to date Charlemagne 's birth to 747. They are also
221-592: The Reichsannalen show a greater awareness of external affairs, military manœuvres, and court politics than the cloistered penmen of the monastic annals. The earliest of the annals is the Royal Frankish Annals , dating from 741. For information before that date, the Chronicon Universale ( MGH : Scriptores, XIII, 1–19) was drawn up about 761. The Chronicon contains information derived from Bede , Fredegar , Isidore of Seville ,
238-792: The court. They cover the period from in 711 until 901 with information drawn from the Annales Laurissenses minores , the Royal Frankish Annals , and the official Annales Lithienses . The counterpart of the Fuldenses is the Annales Bertiniani in West Francia , of a more universal character and probably more objective. They form the source for the Chronicon de gestis Normannorum in Francia . In Lotharingia ,
255-406: The entire empire. Though usually composed at monasteries, they are contrasted with monastic annals which emphasise ecclesiastical and especially local happenings over those of the larger Reich . Some historians, such as Ranke ( Zur Kritik fränkisch-deutscher Reichsannalisten . Berlin, 1854) have seen a sheen of officiality in the various annals for the kings whose reigns they cover. The authors of
272-403: The entry for 786 is identical in the Annales laureshamenses and the Fragmentum but is missing from the Annales mosellani , which lack any entry for that year. Consequently, all subsequent entries are mis-dated by a year (e.g., events that occurred in 798 are dated to 797, the year the Annales presumes to end). Probably all three annalistic compilations derive from a single exemplar created at
289-453: The only source to name either of Carloman I 's two known sons, who fled to Italy with his widow in 771. The one born towards 770, whom Pope Stephen III offered to baptise himself, was named Pepin. Carloman's widow, Gisela, is also named in only one source: the Annales mettenses priores . The Annales Petaviani also provide a unique explanation for the retirement of Carloman's uncle and namesake, Carloman, son of Charles Martel , who entered
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