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Carmen de sancto Landberto
Vita tertia metrica Lamberti Leodiensis

Century: 10

Hagiography

Latin

Dioc. Liège
Dioc. Tournai
County of Flanders
Duchy of Lower Lotharingia

INCIPIT

Pagini ritus coluerunt templa deorum: Alter Saturni, Iovis aram pretulit alter; Saturni - quod eo gratus saturabitus annus.

EXPLICIT

Pontifici Stephano sit laus et gloria sacro, cuius praecepto dicta hae sunt fulgida metro; nominis et claram carpat de voce coronam.

Hucbaldus Elnonensis

Sex: M- Bio: monk, 880 priest and scolastic of the abbey of Saint Amand in Elno (Saint-Amand-les-Eaux), in the period 883/6 until 900 in the abbey of Saint Bertins at Saint-Omer (?c.840/+930). NaSo 653: generally considered as the author (Surius); VAN DER ESSEN thinks that Hucbaldus cannot be the author (VAN DER ESSEN 1923). NaSo 2167: 'Vita metrica Lamberti': According to Demarteau (1902), Hucbald of Saint-Amand was the autor of this biography of saint Lambert. -Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

Anonymous: (Naso 2167)

Sex: M- Bio: NaSo 2167: 'Vita metrica Lamberti': according to Jonsson (1968) the biography was not written by Etienne, nor by Hucbald. Accrording to Krusch (1913), Etienne was only the commissioner of the biography. -Status author (order, function):

Etienne de Liège, Stefaan van Luik, Stephanus Leodiensis (?)

Sex: M- Bio: Was born c.850 in the surroundings of Metz. He was a canon of Metz, abbot of Saint-Michel in Verdun and of Lobbes. He became bishop of Tongeren-Liège (901-920). He is the author of the 'Vita quarta Lamberti' (NaSo S116). According to Auda (1923), the 'Vita metrica Lamberti' is also written by Etienne de Liège (NaSo 2167), which is disputed by other researchers. Other works are adscribed to him, such as soms offices, a breviary and treatises. -Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location: / - Date:Written at the beginning of the tenth century, before the 'vita quarta'. - Commission:Written on the commission of Etienne of Liège (Krush 1913)

SIZE

3773 words

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Third biography of Saint Lambert, written in verse. Lambert originated from an aristocratic family of the Maastricht region. He was educated by bishop Theodardus of Maastricht and resided at the royal court for a while. After the murder of his mentor (shortly after 669), he was appointed bishop of Maastricht by Childeric II. With Childeric’s death (675), Lambert was banished and he lived in exile for seven years in the abbey of Stavelot. When Ebroin, the mayor of the palace of Neustria, was killed (682), Lambert could return to his seat under Pippin II. During his life, he played an important role as a missionary of Toxandria. Finally, he himself fell victim to murder in his villa in Liège (705/6) due to family disputes. It was in Liège that in 714 a church was dedicated to him and where his remains were sheltered. When the bishop’s seat was moved to Liège, it became closely attached to the cult of Saint Lambert. Just as the first vita, the third one was also intended to be read as a ‘lectio’, but in contrary to its predecessor, this life was written in verse. Also it stresses the humility of the bishop, which he acquired because of the monastic life style during his time of exile. The return of the bishop to his seat is represented as a victory of his virtuous existence and humble mentality.

SOURCES

Vita prima Lamberti (Scheibelreiter, 2003)

INFLUENCE

Vita quarta lamberti

MANUSCRIPTS

Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale, 14650-14659 (Link)
Vaticano, Bibliotheca Apostolica, Vat.lat.8565

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

DEMARTEAU (J.), Saint-Lambert. Vie en vers par Hucbald de Saint-Amand et documents du Xe s., in: Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 13 (1877) 395-417
VON WINTERFELD (P.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Poetae latini medii aevi 4, 1 (1899) 142-157 (Link)

LITERATURE

AUDA (A.), L'école musicale liégeoise au Xe s. Etienne de Liège, in: Mémoires de l'Académie royale de Belgique, classe des Beaux-Arts, 2, 1 (1923) 129-132
BALAU (S.), Les sources de l'histoire de Liège au Moyen Age, Étude critique (Brussel 1903) 78-80
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 4682
DEMARTEAU (J.), Saint-Lambert. Vie en vers par Hucbald de Saint-Amand et documents du Xe s., in: Bulletin de l'Institut archéologique liégeois, 13 (1877) 383-519
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi 1 (Bruxelles, 1973) 145
JONSSON (R.), Historia. Etudes sur la genèse des offices versifiés (Stockholm, 1968) 115-118, 127-140
KRUSCH (B.), in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 6 (Hannover-Leipzig, 1913) 329
KUPPER (J.-L.), 'S. Lambert: de l'histoire à la légende', Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique, 79 (1984) 5-49
MASAI (F.) en GILISSEN (L.), Lectionarium Sancti Lamberti Leodiensis tempore Stephani episcopi paratum (901-920). Codex Brux. 14650-59, Umbrae codicum occidentalium, 8, Amsterdam, 1963 v-xxviii
SCHEIBELREITER (G.), 'Der Tod Landberts von Maastricht', in: N. Fryde, D. Reitz (eds.), Bischofsmord im Mittelalter. Murder of bishops (Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für Geschichte, 191) (Göttingen, 2003) 51-82
VAN DER ESSEN (L.), Etude critique et littéraire sur les Vitae des saints mérovingiens de l'ancienne Belgique, Université de Louvain. (Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie, 1e série, 17) (Leuven/Paris, 1907) 38
VON WINTERFELD (P.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Poetae latini medii aevi 4, 1 (1899) 141

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Xavier Baecke

Update:
2012-08-28 11:14:00