Online Encyclopedia

MARIANUS SCOTUS (1028–1082 or 1083)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 708 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

MARIANUS SCOTUS (1028–1082 or 1083)  , chronicler (who must be distinguished from. his namesake Marianus Scotus, d . ,o88,

abbot of St Peter's, Regensburg), was an Irishman by birth, and called Moelbrigte, or servant of Bridget . He was educated by a certain Tigernach, and having become a monk he crossed over to the continent of
See also:
Europe in 1056, and his subsequent
See also:
life was passed in the abbeys of St Martin at Cologne and of
See also:
Fulda, and at Mainz . He died at Mainz, on the 22nd of December 1082 or 1083 . Marianus wrote a Chronicon, which purports to be a universal
See also:
history from the creation of the
See also:
world to 1082 . The Chronicon was very popular during the
See also:
middle ages, and in England was extensively used by Florence of Worcester and other writers . It was first printed at Basel in 1559, and hasbeen edited with an introduction by G . Waitz for the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Scriptores (Bd. v.) . See also W . Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen (Bd. ii., 1894) .

End of Article: MARIANUS SCOTUS (1028–1082 or 1083)
[back]
MARIANAS, or MARANHAS
[next]
MARIAZELL

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.