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See also:FLODOARD (894-966)
, See also:French chronicler, was See also:born at See also:Epernay, and educated at See also:Reims in the See also:cathedral school which had been established by See also:Archbishop Fulcon (822-900)
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As See also:canon of Reims, and favourite of the archbishops Herivaeus (d
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922) and Seulfus (d
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925), he occupied while still See also:young an important position at the archiepiscopal See also:court, but was twice deprived of his benefices by Heribert, See also:count of See also:Vermandois, on See also:account of his steady opposition to the See also:election of the count's See also:infant son to the archbishopric
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Upon the final See also:triumph of Archbishop Artold in 947, See also:Flodoard became for a See also:time his See also:chief adviser, but withdrew to a monastery in 952, and spent the remaining years of his See also:life in See also:literary and devotional See also:work
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His See also:history of the cathedral See also: See also:Migne (Patrologia See also:Latina, vol . 135) ; a See also:modern edition of the Annales is the one edited by P . Lauer (See also:Paris, 1906) . For bibliography see A . See also:Molinier, See also:Sources de l'histoire de See also:France (No . |
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