- Richerus
Richerus was a
monk ofSt. Remi atReims , and achronicler of the10th century .He was a son of Rodulf, a trusty councillor and captain of
Louis IV of France . He studied at Reims under Gerbert, afterwardsPope Silvester II , who taught him mathematics, history, letters and eloquence. He was also well versed in the medical science of his time, and in991 travelled toChartres to consult the medical manuscripts there. He was still living in998 , but there is no mention of him after that date. In spite of his violent partisanship, for Richerus was an ardent upholder of theCarolingians and French supremacy, of great defects of style, and of an utter disregard of accuracy and truth, his "Historiae" has a unique value as giving us the only tolerably full account by a contemporary of the memorable revolution of987 , which placed theCapet s on the throne ofFrance . The "Historiae", in four books, begins withCharles the Fat andEudes , and goes down to the year995 . From969 onwards Richerus had no earlier history before him, and his work is the chief source for the period. It was first edited in Pertz's "Monumenta Germaniae Historica", vol. iii.There are French translations by
J. Guadet (Paris, 1845, Soc. de l'hist. de France);Poinsignon (Reims, 1855, Pub. de l'Academie de Rheims); and a German version byK. Freiherr v. der Osten-Sacken (Berlin 1854). Cf.A. Molinier , Sources de l'histoire de France, i. 284 (ed. 1901).References
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External links
* [http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/30_10_0900-1000-_Richerus_Remenses.html Opera Omnia by Migne Patrologia Latina with analytical indexes]
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