ADHEMAR DE CHABANNES (c. 988-c. 1030), medieval
historian, was born about 988 at Chabannes, a village in
the French department of Haute-Vienne. Educated at the
monastery of St Martial at Limoges, he passed his life as a
monk, either at this place or at the monastery of St Cybard at
Angouleme. He died about 1030, most probably at Jerusalem,
whither he had gone on a pilgrimage. Adinemar's life
was mainly spent in writing and transcribing chronicles,
and his principal work is a history entitled Chronicon
Aquitanicum et Francicum or Historia Francorum. This
is in three books and deals with Frankish history from the
fabulous reign of Pharamond, king of the Franks, to A.D.
1028. The two earlier books are scarcely more than a copy of
the Gesta regum Francorum, but the third book, which deals
with the period from 814 to 1028, is of considerable historical
importance. This is published in the Monumenta Germaniac
historica. Scriptores. Band iv. (Hanover and Berlin,
1826-1892). He also wrote Commemoratio abbatum Lemovicensium
basilicae S. Martialis apostoli (848-1029) and Epistola
ad Jordanum Lemovicensem episcopum et alios de apostolatu
S. Martialis, both of which are published by J. P. Migne
in the Patrologia Latinia, tome cxli. (Paris, 1844-1855).
See F. Arbellot, Etude historique et litteraire sur Ademar de
Chabannes (Limoges, 1873); J. F. E. Castaigne, Dissertation sur
le lieu de naissance et sur la famille du chroniqueur Ademar,
moine de l'abbaye de St Cybard d'Angouleme (Angouleine, 1850).
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