Johannis de Trokelowe et Henrici de Blaneforde chronica et annales: AD 1259-1296, 1307-1324, 1392-1406

by John de Trokelowe, Henry Thomas Riley (Editor), Henry de Blaneforde

Overview

Between 1863 and 1876, the Rolls Series published several works from or about the abbey of St Albans, edited by Henry Thomas Riley (1816–78) under the rubric 'Chronica Monasterii S. Albani'. This volume of source material for the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, some of it unique, appeared in 1866. It contains texts from several important manuscripts, recording state and church affairs, warfare and diplomacy, and benefactions to the abbey. Recent research suggests that the author of the 1307–23 annals, attributed to John de Trokelowe, was William Rishanger (who appears elsewhere in the Rolls Series); Trokelowe was probably a scribe, while Henry de Blaneforde is named as the continuator. Evidence also exists that the anonymous account of the period 1392–1406 in this volume is in fact part of Thomas Walsingham's Chronica majora, other sections of which were edited separately by Riley. The Latin texts are accompanied by English side-notes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108046817
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/15/2012
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
Pages:	620
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.38(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Walsingham's 'English History' and its St. Alban's sources; Opus chronicorum (MS. Cotton. Claudius D. vi.); Johannis de Trokelowe annales (MS. Cotton. Claudius D. vi.); Henrici de Blaneforde chronica (MS. Cotton. Claudius D. vi.); Annales Ricardi Secundi et Henrici Quarti, regum Angliae (MS. Coll. Corp.Christi, Cant. No. vii.); Interpolations in MS. Cotton. Faustina B. ix. fols. 189 and 198; Appendix: Liber de benefactoribus monasterii Sancti Albani (MS. Coll. Corp.Christi, Cant. No. vii.); Glossary; Index; Index to the names of benefactors mentioned in the appendix.