For 1200 Wendover is mostly Howden rewritten, so he is a second witness only where he adds St Albans material: a long account of Hugh of Lincoln's last months, death and funeral, and anecdotes about John's conduct toward the Cistercians and his new queen. His dating of the Le Goulet settlement and the royal marriage follows Howden. Useful because Matthew Paris later copied and sharpened him, so this is where the hostile tradition about John's early reign begins.
About this source
- Title
- Flores Historiarum
- Author
- Roger of Wendover
- Author's dates
- died 6 May 1236
- Written
- about 1220 to 1235 at St Albans
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- Creation to 1235; original from about 1202
- Kind
- Chronicle
The year 1200 falls in Hewlett vol. 1 and Coxe vol. 3; only Coxe vol. 1 was located online here. Wendover compiled in the 1220s and 1230s, a generation after the events.
Where to read it
Editions
- H. G. Hewlett (ed.), Rogeri de Wendover liber qui dicitur Flores Historiarum ab anno 1154, Rolls Series 84, 3 vols (1886 to 1889); vol. 1 runs from 1154
- H. O. Coxe (ed.), Rogeri de Wendover Chronica sive Flores Historiarum, English Historical Society, 5 vols (1841 to 1844); vol. 1 digitised by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Translations
Read it online
- Latin text, Hewlett vol. 1, at the Internet Archive
- Giles's translation, vol. 2, at the Internet Archive