Hugh of Poitiers

Hugh of Poitiers

Hugh of Poitiers [Hugues, Hugo Pictavinus, Pictavinienis.] (died 1167) was a Benedictine monk of Vézelay Abbey and chronicler.

His "Historia Vizeliacensis monasterii" was written from about 1140 to 1160 [ [http://www.burgundytoday.com/historic-places/myths-legends/hugues-de-poitieres.htm Myths & Legends of Burgundy, King Arthur in Burgundy, France ] ] . Besides being a rather partisan account of the affairs of the Abbey, it is an important source for the history of France in its period [http://www2.luc.edu/publications/medieval/vol4/huygens.html, http://www.ucalgary.ca/lib-old/subjects/HIST/monasticismpri.html] . It was written for Abbot Ponce of Vézelay (1138-1161), who was brother to Peter the Venerable of Cluny Abbey [Francis Oakley, "The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages" (1979), p. 411.] .

He also wrote the "Origo et historia brevis Nivernensium comitum", about the county of Nevers [Oakley, p. 340.] [Constance Brittain Bouchard, "Those of My Blood: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia" (2001), p. 42.] .

Reference

*John Scott and John O. Ward (translators) (1992), "The Vezelay Chronicle: And Other Documents from Ms. Auxerre 227 and Elsewhere"

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