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Epistola de Martino ad G(obertum) canonicum Laudunensem
Century: 13
Correspondence
Latin
Dioc. Liège
Principality of Liège
INCIPIT
Reverendo patri et domino G. beatae Dei genitricis Mariae Laudunensi canonico, Hervardus Leodiensis archidiaconus, praesentis vitae stadium juste vivendo viriliter... Usitati moris est et longo bonorum consensu approbati, quibuslibet, et maxime facilibus et honestis petitionibus amicos sese invicem exaudire, ut per hilarem et promptam...
EXPLICIT
...exaudiat, quod ipsa charitas, id est Deum, sua pietate a vovis precibus beati Martini avertens tribuat, ut in eadem ipsa charitate omnia vestra compleantur.
Sex: M- Bio: monk of the abbey of Gembloux, 1177-9 secretary of Hildegardis of Bingen and spiritual father of the monastic community of Rupertsberg in Bingen, 1180 back to Gembloux, September 1180-May 1881 and 1185-1186/87 in the abbey of Marmoutier (Tours), 1188 abbot in the abbey of Florennes (?1124/5/+1214). (NaSo 265): See Pertz and Potthast for the attribution to Guibertus Gemblacensis. (Naso 607): zie Delehaye (1888) voor de toeschrijving aan Guibertus Gemblacensis (in overeenstemming met Hervardus). (NaSo 1524): The final redaction of this letter seems to be the work of Guibertus Gemblacensis-Status author (order, function): Benedictine Monks (OSB)
Sex: M- Bio: ca. 1200 canon in Lobbes, magister, from 1208 canon of the chapter of Saint Lambert in Liège, from 1209 archdeacon of Famenne, 1227 provost of Saint-John-the-Evangelist in Liège (+2nd May 1229 (perhaps 1228).-Status author (order, function):
EDITING
Location:Probably the diocese of Liège - Date:c.1212 (Index scriptorum), at the earliest 1209 - Commission: /
SIZE
1051 woorden (Index scriptorum)
CONTEXT
The letters bears the mark of Guibert's typical style and is, therefore, at least in part to be attributed to him.
ABSTRACT
Letter of Hervardus to his uncle Gobert of Laon in which he intervenes on the behalf of Guibert of Gembloux, who had asked Gobert to employ his literary skills to spread the fame of St Martin of Tours (+November 11th 397/401) (see NaSo 522).
SOURCES
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
Brussel/Bruxelles, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/Bibliothèque Royale
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
MABILLON (J.), Vetera analecta, 2 (Parijs, 1676) 536-543; (Parijs, 1723 2de druk) 480-481
MIGNE (J.-P.), Patrologia latina, CCXI (Paris, 1855) 1283-1286 (ex Mabillon)
LITERATURE
AUBERT (R.), 'Hervard de Fosses', in: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, 24 (Paris, 1993) 226-227
BALAU (S.), Les sources de l'histoire de Liège au Moyen Age, Étude critique (Bruxelles, 1903) 443-445
Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina Suppl. nr. 5651
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, 8 1248-1291
BOEREN (P.C.), 'Maître Gobert, poète belge du XIIe siècle', Archivum latinitatis medii aevi, 31 (1961) 129-134
CHEVALIER (U.), Répertoire des sources historiques du Moyen-age. Bio-bibliographie (Paris, 1877-1886. 1888 II) 2136
DELEHAYE (H.), 'Guibert abbé de Florennes et de Gembloux XIIe et XIIIe siècles', in: Revue des questions historiques, 46 (1889) 85-86
DELEHAYE (H.), 'Guiberti Gemblacensis epistula de sancto Martino et alterius Guiberti item Gemblacensis carmina de eodem', Anallecta Bollandiana, 7 (1888) 265-320 271
Histoire littéraire de la France, 17 (Parijs) 180-183
Index scriptorum operumque Latino-Belgicorum Medii Aevi, 3:1 (Bruxelles, 1979) 122-123
KURTH (G.), 'L'archidiacre Hervard', in: Bulletin de la Commission Royale d'Histoire, 72 (1903) 153-159 (121-180)
MOENS (S.), 'Twelfth-century epistolary language of friendship reconsidered. The case of Guibert of Gembloux', Revue Belge de philologie et d'histoire/ Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis, 88 (2010), 983-1017
POTTHAST (A.), Bibliotheca Historica Medii Aevi, Wegweiser durch die Geschichtswerke des europäischen Mittelalters bis 1500, I (Berlin, 1896) 592
RENARDY (C.), L'obituaire de la collégiale Notre-Dame à Huy (Brussel, 1975) 85
RENARDY (C.), Les maîstres universitaires du diocèse de Liège. Répertoire biographique (1140-1350), Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, 232 (Paris, 1981) 307-308
SCHMALE (F.-J.), 'Hervard', in Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, 5 (Freiburg, 1960 2de druk) 283
VAN ARENBERGH (E.), 'Hirnand', in BN, 9 (Brussel,1886-7) 391-394
WATTENBACH (W.), Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter bis zum Mitte des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, 2 (Berlin, 1893-1894) 3845, 4216
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Sara Moens

Update:
2014-07-01 16:40:11

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