Falco of Benevento
Falco of Benevento (Falcone Beneventano; Falco Penevent) was an Italian-Lombard twelfth-century historian, notary and scribe in the papal palace in Benevento, his native city, where he was born to high-standing parents. He is an important chronicler for the years between 1102 and 1139 in the Mezzogiorno. He was an opponent of King Roger II of Sicily, and a supporter of Innocent II against Roger's friend Anacletus II. He was, above all, a patriotic supporter of Benevento.
Falco of Benevento
- Full name
- Falco.
- Born
- 1070. · Benevento.
- Died
- 1144.
- Occupation
- chronicler, writer and judge.
- Known for
- Chronicon Beneventanum.
- Languages
- Latin.
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Falco of Benevento (Falcone Beneventano; Falco Penevent) was an Italian-Lombard twelfth-century historian, notary and scribe in the papal palace in Benevento, his native city, where he was born to high-standing parents. He is an important chronicler for the years between 1102 and 1139 in the Mezzogiorno. He was an opponent of King Roger II of Sicily, and a supporter of Innocent II against Roger's friend Anacletus II. He was, above all, a patriotic supporter of Benevento.
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Brown writes that Falco demonstrated "a blazing pride in his city and a vitriolic hate of the Normans." Parts of his chronicle are now lost, but were apparently used for the years 1099–1103 and 1140–49 in the Chronica Romanorum pontificum et imperatorum ac de rebus in Apulia gestis.
• Chronicon Beneventanum at The Latin Library. • Chronicon Beneventanum at the Centro Europea di Studi Normanni.
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- 1.Marino Zabbia: Écriture historique et culture documentaire. La chronique de Falcone Beneventano (première moitié du douzième siècle), in: Bibliotheque de l’École des Chartes, Bd. 159, Librairie Droz, Paris/Genf 2002, S. 369–388, hier: S. 370.
- 2.Edoardo D’Angelo (Hrsg.): Chronicon Beneventanum. Città e feudi nell’Italia dei Normanni, Florenz 1998, S. VIII.
- 3.Antonio Caracciolo: Antiqui chronologi quatuor. Herempertus Langobardus. Lupus Protospata. Anonymus Cassinensis. Falco Beneventanus Cum Appendicibus Historicis, Neapel 1626, S. 177/178–343 (Digitalisat).
- 4.Bartolomeo Capasso: Le fonti della storia delle provincie napoletane dal 568 al 1500, a cura di Oreste Mastrojanni, Napoli : Marghieri 1902 (Nachdruck Bologna : Forni 1967), S. 70–71
- 5.Nachweis im Gateway Bayern
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