Henri de Huntingdon

Henri de Huntingdon , born towards 1088 and died in 1160, is a Historien anglo- Normand of and Archidiacre of Huntingdon.

Henri de Huntingdon was the son of Norman having taken part in the Conquête of England and of a mother saxonne. He is especially known for his Historia Anglorum ( Histoire of the English ), written between 1123 and 1130, which covers the period active of the Roman invasion of 43 av. J. - C. with the accession with the throne of Henri II in 1154. One approximately estimates that approximately seventy-five percent of this work derive directly from other works through translations, summaries or direct quotations, forty percent which come from the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bède Worthy the for the old period. The period going of the years 1126 with 1154 is, on the other hand, original, Henri having been pilot certain events which he reports, including the reigns of Henri Beauclerc, Henri II and the civil war of 1135-1154 of Etienne of Blois. Its perfect knowledge of the languages English E and Norman E allowed to him to collect first hand testimonys where its personal experience was lacking to him.

Full with dramatic stories, its Historia was extremely popular and influential near the other historians. This popularity of its work should not however decrease the direction as a rigorous history by them, nor to make lose of sight its work like a careful contribution to the political discussions in progress at its time around the ethnic membership, of the nationality and the justification of the capacity in England and with the Wales.

Henri de Huntingdon cut out the English history according to the five great invasions by the Romains, the Pictes and the Écossais, the Anglo-Saxon, the Viking S and the Normands. The version of 1135 of the Historia is divided into seven volumes:

  1. Roman Brittany
  2. the Anglo-Saxon conquest
  3. christianization
  4. Danish invasions
  5. the conquest Norman

The following versions of the Historia , include/understand three additional volumes on the life of the saints and other miracles (including a description particularly feeling reluctant of the decomposition of the corpse of Henri Beauclerc) and a summary of parts of the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffroy de Monmouth. One also owes in Henri de Huntingdon the invention of the term of historical periodisation of Heptarchie to describe the seven cruel Royaumes of Wessex, of the Essex, Kent, Mercie, the East Anglia or “kingdom of the Angles of the East”, the Sussex and Northumbrie founded by the Anglo-Saxon in insular Brittany.

Work

  • Henrici archidiaconi Huntendunensis Historia Anglorum , Thomas Arnold, Nendeln, Klaus Reprint, 1965
  • Historia Anglorum: The history off the English people, 1000-1154 , ED. Diana E. Greenway, Oxford; New York, Oxford University Close, 2002 ISBN 0192840754

Reference

  • Thomas Forester, The Chronicle off Henry off Huntingdon , Londes, H.G. Bohn, 1853

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