Henry of Herford

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Henry of Herford (or Herworden or Hervordia) was a friar and chronicler; date of birth unknown; died in Minden, 9 Oct., 1370.

He was a native of Herworden, Westphalia, and was professed in the Dominican friary at Minden. There he wrote his chronicle Liber de rebus memorabilioribus (Book of Memorable Things), in which he summarizes the work of older historians from Eusebius down to the writers of his own age. The work, which is continued down to the coronation of the Emperor Charles IV in 1355, was one of the chief sources of historical information in fourteenth-century literature.

It was printed under the editorship of August Potthast in Göttingen in 1859. He also composed the Catena aurea in decem partes distincta, a summary of theology, and a treatise, De Conceptione Virginis gloriosae. Seven years after his death the emperor caused his remains to be solemnly transferred to a place of honour near the high altar.

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Fabricius, Biblioth. med. aet. (1735), III, 658-9
Potthast, Chronicon Henrici de Hervordia (Göttingen, 1859), Diss. I;
Franklin, Dictionnaire des Noms, Surnoms et Pseudonymes Latins de l'histoire littéraire du Moyen Age (Paris, 1875)
Wegele in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (1881);
Streber in Kirchenlex.;
Wilhelm Diekamp in Zeitschr. Gesch. Altert. Westfal. (1899), LVII, 90-103;
Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator;
Chevalier, Répertoire des sources historiques du Moyen Age (Paris, 1905).