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Vita secunda Trudonis Hasbaniensis

Century: 11-12

Hagiography

Latin

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

INCIPIT

Adres: Domino, dignitate patri, charitate fratri Gerardo, suus Theodericus salutem.-- Brief: Exigis a me una cum fratribus meis, qui tecum sunt, monachorum religiosissime, religiosorum literarissime, ut tuae quondam petitionis, meaeque promissionis memor, libellum de vita beatissimi patris nostri Trudonis...-- Proloog: Si victoria militis, laus est imperatoris, laudi creatoris quaedam quasi damna facit, qui unde in electis suis laudetur, reticescit...-- Corpus: In exaltando igitur omnipotens Dominus Ecclesiam fidelium, venerabilis Trudo ortus est Hasbaniensi territorio. Clotarius, Chilperici successor, tunc temporis Francorum regno,...

EXPLICIT

...Quod rogatus caelorum ille arbiter nobis largiatur... Amen.

Theodericus Trudonensis

Sex: M- Bio: Was born c. 1060 and admitted as a youngster to the the abbey of Saint-Trond. After the death of abbot Abelardus II he fled to Ghent, where he wrote several Vitae. On 25th December 1098 he was elected as the abbot of Sint-Truiden. He died on 25th April 1107.-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)

EDITING

Location:Sint-Truiden - Date:before 1107 (presumably c.1099) - Commission:dedicated to prior Gerardus of Sint-Truiden (2nd half of the 11th century)

SIZE

12.944 woorden

CONTEXT

Theoderic wrote this work during his exile in the Saint Peter's abbey of Ghent (1086-1093/95).

ABSTRACT

Life of St Trudo in two volumes. Trudo originated from an aristocratic family from the ‘Haspengouw’. He was the spiritual son of Remaclius, bishop of Tongeren and het was educated as a priest at the episcopal school of Metz. As a preacher, he wandered the bishopric of Tongeren and in ca. 660 he build a chapel dedicated to Saint Quintinus and Saint Remigius, that would grow into the abbey of Sint-Truiden. After his death around 695, it was there that he was buried. The Vita written by Theodericus has no new elements compared to that of Donatus (Pieyns-Rigo 1976; Cox 1996). Patzold (2000) however notices subtle changes in the work and points to discourse Theodericus uses. He chose to rewrite the biography of the patron saint of his original community, to stress his own state of exile, as well to express his wish to rejoin that community. At the same time, he reminded the monks of the abbey of Sint-Truiden of their mortality.

SOURCES

Donatus, Vita prima Trudonis Hasbaniensis (NaSo-Link)
Guicardus

INFLUENCE

Guicardus, Vita Trudonis (Enkel door deze vita weten we van het bestaan af van een andere Vita Trudonis die geschreven zou zijn door Guicardus, abt van Sint-Truiden.)

MANUSCRIPTS

Liège, Bibliothèque de l'Université, 278

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

SURIUS (L.), De probatis sanctorum historiis, 6 (Köln, 1618) 543-566

LITERATURE

AERTS (J.H.), 'Diederik', in: Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek 3 (Brussel, 1968) 272-276
BALAU (S.), Les sources de l'histoire de Liège au Moyen Age, Étude critique (Bruxelles, 1903) 357
BERLIÈRE (U.), in: B.N., XXIV (1926-29) 903-904
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 8323
COENS (M.), 'Les saints particulièrement honorés à l'abbaye de Saint-Trond', in: Analecta bollandiana, 72 (1954) 85-133 (98)
COENS (M.), 'Utriusque linguae peritus. En marge d'un prologue de Thierry de Saint-Trond', in: Analecta Bollandiana, 76 (1958) 118-150
COX (H.L.), 'Die Kontextfunktion der Miracula in den Gesta Abbatum Trudonensium (628-1558), der Vita und dem Liber Miraculorum Sancti Trudonis', in: Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter, 60 (1996) 42005
Handschriften uit de abdij van Sint-Truiden (Leuven, 1986) 290-291
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 2 (Bruxelles, 1976) 229;
MANITIUS (M.), Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, vol.III, Vom Ausbruch des Kirchenstreits bis zum Ende des zwolften Jahrhunderts (München, 1959-1964) 708, 711;
MOLINIER (A.), Les Sources de l'histoire de France depuis les origines jusqu'en 1789 (4 vols.) (Paris, 1902-1904) nr. 551;
PIEYNS-RIGO (P.), 'Abbaye de Saint-Trond', in: Monasticon belge, VI (Luik, 1976) 13-67 (13)
POTTHAST (A.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, II (Berlin, 1896) 1610;
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) 91-96
WATTENBACH (W.), Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zum Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, 1 (Berlin, 1893-1894) 215-217

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Contributor:
Véronique Lambert
Xavier Baecke

Update:
2013-03-04 14:35:19