REGINON, or REGINO  or PRUM, medieval chronicler, was born at Altripp near Spires, and was educated in the monastery of Prum . Here he became a monk, and in 892, just after the monastery had been sacked by the Danes, he was chosen abbot . In 899, however, he was deprived of this position and he went to Trier, where he was appointed abbot of St Martin's, a house which he reformed . He died in 915, and was buried in the abbey of St Maximin at Trier, his tomb being discovered there in 1581 . Reginon wrote a Chronicon, dedicated to Adalberon, bishop of Augsburg (d . 909), which deals with the history of the world from the commencement of the Christian era to 906, especially the history of affairs in Lorraine and the neighbourhood . The first book (to 741) consists mainly of extracts from Bede, Paulus Diaconus and other writers; of the second book (741—906) the latter part is original and valuable, although the chronology is at fault and the author relied chiefly upon tradition and hearsay for his information . The work was continued to 967 by a monk of Trier, possibly Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg (d . 981) . The chronicle was first published at Mainz in 1521; another edition is in Band I. of the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Scriptores (1826); the best is the one edited by F . Kurze (Hanover, 189o) .

It has been translated into

German by W . Wattenbach (Leipzig, 189o) . Reginon also drew up at the request of his friend and patron Radbod, archbishop of Trier (d . 915), a collection of canons, Libri duo de synodalibus causis et disciplinis ecclesiasticis, dedicated to Hatto I., archbishop of Mainz; this is published in Tome 132 of J . P . Migne's Patrologia Latina . To Radbod he wrote a letter on music, Epistola de harmonica institutione, with a Tonarius, the object of this being to improve the singing in the churches of the diocese . The letter is published in Tome I. of Gerbert's Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra (1784), and the Tonarius in Tome II. of Coussemaker's Scriptores de musica medii aevi . See also H . Ermisch, Die Chronik des Regino bis 813 (Gottingen, 1872); P . Schulz, Die Glaubwurdig• keit des Abtes Reginol von Pram (Hamburg, 1894) ; C . Wawra, De Reginone Prumensis (Breslau, 1901); A .

Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, Tome I . (1 01) ; and W . Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band I . (1904) .