Albert of Aix-la-Chapelle or Albert of Aachen (floruit circa AD 1100), historian of the First Crusade, was born during the later part of the 11th century, and afterwards became canon and custos of the church of Aachen. August 5 - Henry I becomes King of England. ... For other uses, see Historian (disambiguation). ... Combatants Christendom, Catholicism West European Christians, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia Seljuks, Arabs and other Muslims The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of liberating the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslims and freeing the Eastern Christians from Muslim... Canons, Bruges A Canon of the Seminary, Sint Niklaas, Flanders. ... Oche redirects here; in darts the oche is the line from which players must throw. ...

Nothing else is known of his life except that he was the author of a Historia Hierosolymitanae expeditionis, or Chronicon Hierosolymitanum de bello sacro, a work in Latin in twelve books, written between 1125 and 1150. This history begins at the time of the Council of Clermont, deals with the fortunes of the First Crusade and the earlier history of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, and ends somewhat abruptly in 1121. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, given a late Gothic setting in this illumination from the Livre des Passages dOutre-mer, of c 1490 (Bibliothèque National) The Council of Clermont was a mixed synod of ecclesiastics and laymen of the Catholic Church, which was held in... The kingdom of Jerusalem and the other Crusader states (in shades of green) in the context of the Near East in 1135. ...

It was well known during the Middle Ages, and was largely used by William, archbishop of Tyre, for the first six books of his Belli sacri historia. In modern times, it was accepted unreservedly for many years by most historians, including Edward Gibbon. In more recent times, its historical value has been seriously impugned, but the verdict of the best scholarship seems to be that in general it forms a true record of the events of the First Crusade, although containing some legendary matter. Albert never visited the Holy Land, but he appears to have had a considerable amount of discourse with returned crusaders, and to have had access to valuable correspondence. The first edition of the history was published at Helmstedt in 1584, and a good edition is in the Recueil des historiens des croisades, tome iv (Paris, 1841–1887). The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... William of Tyre (c. ... The Archbishop of Tyre was one of the major suffragans of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem during the Crusades and was established to serve the Catholic members of the diocese. ... Edward Gibbon (1737–1794). ... This article is about the medieval crusades. ... For other uses, see Holy Land (disambiguation). ... Helmstedt is a city located at the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. ...

See F Krebs, Zur Kritik Alberts von Aachen (Munster, 1881); B Kugler, Albert von Aachen (Stuttgart, 1885); M Pigeonneau, Le cycle de la croisade et de la famille de Bouillon (Paris, 1877); Heinrich von Sybel, Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges (Leipzig, 1881); F Vercruysse, Essai critique sur la chronique d'Albert d'Aix (Liege, 1889). Heinrich von Sybel (December 2, 1817 - August 1, 1895), German historian, sprang from a Protestant family which had long been established at Soest, in Westphalia. ...

There is a new edition of Albert by Dr. Susan Edgington, including a full English translation.

References

• Susan B. Edgington, "Albert of Aachen and the Chansons de Geste" in The Crusades and their sources: essays presented to Bernard Hamilton ed. John France, William G. Zajac (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998) pp. 23-37.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
• Albert of Aachen, Historia Ierosolimitana, ed. S. Edgington (Oxford: Oxford Medieval Texts, 2007).

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External links

• Albert of Aix at The Latin Library (from the Patrologia Latina edition).