Guillaume de Jumièges

Guillaume de Jumièges was an Anglo-Norman writer of language Latin E of.

Contemporary of the Conquest of England, Guillaume de Jumièges is one of the first authors to evoke the events of 1066. Itself is an enigmatic figure which is known as monk of the Abbaye of Jumièges only by its epistle dédicatoire with William the Conqueror. As it also mentions that he was the eyewitness of some events of the reign of Richard III (1026 -7), it seems reasonable to suppose that it was born around the year 1000. It entered probably to the monastery during the first quarter of and was educated by Thierry de Mathonville. According to Vital Orderic, the nickname of Guillaume was “Calculus”, but it did not reveal the significance of this nickname. Its death, posterior to 1070, was not consigned.

Guillaume de Jumièges was Norman writing from a Norman point of view and, though he was only one monk without any military experiment, he reported the achievements of his people with pride. He was the original compiler of the history of the Dukes of Normandy known under the name of Gesta Normannorum Ducum (“History of the Dukes of Normandy”), written towards 1070. This epic was built on the framework of a preceding history compiled by Dudon of Saint-Quentin, Of moribus and actis primorum Normannorum ducum (“Habits and actions of the first Dukes of Normandy”), written some share between 996 and 1015. This work financed by the duke Richard I {{er}} and renewed by his/her half-brother, the count Raoul d' Ivry and his son Richard II (996-1026). The work of Dudon is included in the Années 1050 per Guillaume de Jumièges who revised, shortened and updated sound Of moribus by adding to it a relation of the reigns of the dukes Richard II (996 - 1026), Richard III (1026 - 7), Robert I {{er}} (1027 - 35) and Guillaume II (1035 - 1087).

Having finished its work towards 1060, Guillaume de Jumièges took it again, after William the Conqueror had become king of England, to add the episode of the conquest of England and to report to it the events until 1070. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum were then increased with by the monks chroniclers Orderic Vital and Robert de Torigni.

Work

Gesta Normannorum ducum completed about 1071-1072 knew several modern editions:
  • ED. François Guizot, Paris, Brière, 1826. En line on Gallica.
  • ED. Jean Marx, Paris, A. Picard, 1914.
  • ED. Elisabeth Van Houts, 2 volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Near, 1992 and 1995.

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