Dudon of Saint-Quentin

Dudon of Saint-Quentin , senior of Saint-Quentin where it was born towards 965, is a Norman chronicler 11th century.

Sent in 986 by Albert I {{er}} of Vermandois near Richard I {{er}}, duke of Normandy, Dudon remains a few years in Normandy, after the success of its mission at the court where it made a very favorable impression. It is at the time of a second stay in Normandy that it writes its history of Norman with the invitation of the duke Richard I {{er}}. One hardly knows another thing about his life, if not which he dies before 1043.

Dudon seems not to have consulted any existing document to write, between 1015 and 1030, its Historia Normannorum or Libri III of moribus and actis primorum Normanniae ducum . It draws its information in the Oral tradition, mainly in a half-brother of the duke Richard, the count Raoul d' Ivry.

Consequently, its history, dedicated to Adalbéron, bishop of Laon, takes the aspect of a Courtly romance , which is worth to him to be regarded by qualified critics Ernst Dümmler or Georg Waitz as not very reliable. Other authorities, such as Jules Lair or Johannes Steenstrup consider nevertheless, without to deny the presence of the legend, the value this work like considerable for the history of the Norman ones.

Although Dudon was informed of Virgile and other authors Latin S, its Latin is affected and obscure. Written alternatively in Prose and Towards of several meter S, the Historia is divided into four parts and glorifie the Norman ones of which she reports the history since 852 until the death of the duke Richard in 996. Guillaume de Jumièges, Wace, Robert de Torigni, Guillaume of Poitiers and Hugues de Fleury had there largely recourse during the compilation of their own chronicle. The Historia was published for the first time in 1619 with Paris by André Duchesne in his Historia Normannorum scriptores antiqui . There exists another edition in the Patrologia Latina, volume CXLI , of Jacques Paul Migne (Paris, 1844), but the best is undoubtedly that of Lair (Caen, 1865).

Work

Of moribus and actis primorum Normanniae ducum , ED. Jules Lair, Caen, F. the White-Hardel, 1865

Work in line

References

Rene Bansard, Jean Charles Payen, the Legend arthurienne and Normandy , Cop Noireau, Corlet, 1983 ISBN 2854800680
Henri Prentout, Étude criticizes on Dudon of Saint-Quentin and its history of the first Norman dukes , Caen, Poisson, 1915
Auguste Molinier, the Sources of the French history, volume II (Paris, 1902)
Ernst Dümmler, Zur Kritik Dudos von St Quentin in the Forschungen zur deutschen Geschichte, Bande VI and IX (Gottingen, 1866)

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External bonds

Starting from the diffusion of three poems hagiographic, identification of the Carolingian centers having influenced the work of Dudon of Saint-Quentin

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