Stelle Hic cum Normannis Galliam penetrant...; (Vita Autberti (1012 - 1051), Cap. 18 (p. 124, lin. 889)) [1788]

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Text Vita Autberti (1012 - 1051) Gerard of Florennes Anonymous - Hagiography
Quotation Hic cum Normannis Galliam penetrantibus, etiam prouintiam suam totam pene occupantibus, res ad ipsam aecclesiam pertinentes depopulari locumque sanctum cultus sui munere uacantem cerneret, cum magna diligentia sanctum corpus in aecclesia beatae Mariae transtulit anno dominicae incarnationis DCCCLXXXIIII-o, praesulatus uero Dodilonis tertio, regni uero Arnulfi tertio eque anno, inditione VII-ma, ubi octauo Iduum decembrium honorifice collocatum multo tempore quieuit. Euoluto autem aliquo temporum spatio, postquam Otto, gloriosus princeps atque pacificus imperator, Heinrici regis filius, regnum quod a patre minus pacatum acceperat sedatis hostibus multa in pace composuisset et subactis per circuitum nationibus illud ampliasset necnon orientalium rex Francorum ac patricius Romanorum appellatus esset, cepit animosius circa aecclesiasticae dispensationis offitia pio sollicitudinis exercitio occupari aecclesiaque Dei, ubi deerant, construere, ubi uero aut uetustate collapsae aut gentium infestatione destructae fuerant, datis ex proprio erario pecuniis reparare, adeo ut praeter opera quae plurima ad regni decorem et commoditatem pertinentia diuersis in locis expleuerat XIIII pontificalis magnificentiae sedes construeret. Inter quas urbem quandam metropolim condidit, que usitato uocabulo Magadaburc nuncupatur, quae ciuitas Sclauos a Saxonibus qui illis contermini sunt disparat.
Translation When the Northmen were raiding throughout Gaul, even totally occupying his own province, and he saw the state of the church ravaged and the holy place bereft of the gift of his [the saint's] worship, with great diligence he moved the holy body in the church of the blessed Mary in the year of the Lord's incarnation 888, in the third year of Dodilo's episcopacy, in the third year of the reign of Arnulf, the eighth indiction, on the eighth of the Ides of December, where it rested, placed honorably, for a long time. But when some time had passed, after Otto, the most glorious prince and peaceful emperor, son of King Henry, had composed the kingdom in great peace which he had received in a less peaceful state from his father and pacified his enemies, and subdued the nations around it and amplified it, and was called both King of the Eastern Franks and Patrician of the Romans, he began to thoughtfully occupy himself in the exercise of pious concern for the matters of provision of the church of God, and where they were lacking, to build them, or where they had collapsed from age or had been destroyed by attacks from the heathen, he gave money from his own treasury to repair them, indeed to the extent that, beyond the many such works that he brought to completion pertaining to the dignity and proper provision of the kingdom, in various places he built 14 seats of episcopal magnificence. Among which he founded a certain metropolis, which in common usage is called Magdeburg, a see which separates the Slavs from the Saxons who border one another there. (Trans: Laura Gazzoli)
Quotation source Cap. 18 (p. 124, lin. 889)
Temporal Coverage 889 - 968
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