Alberic of Trois-Fontaines

Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (French: Aubri or Aubry de Trois-Fontaines; Latin: Albericus Trium Fontium) (d. ca. 1252) was a medieval Cistercian chronicler who wrote in Latin. He was a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne. He died after 1252.

Chronicle

In 1232 Alberic began his Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium, which describes world events from the Creation to the year 1241.

His sources included Books 45-49 of Helinand of Froidmont's Chronicon.

Alberic's chronicle was published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1874.^[1]

References

1. ↑ ‘Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium’, ed. Paulus Scheffer-Boichorst, in Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Scriptorum, vol. 23 (Hanover, 1874), pp. 631-950.

Bibliography

• Reindel, K., 'Petrus Damiani bei Helinand von Froidmont und Alberich von Troisfontaines', Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters 53,1 (1997), 205-224.
• Schmidt-Chazan, "Aubri de Trois-Fontaines, un historien entre la France et l'Empire", Annales de l'Est, t.36, 1984, p. 163-192