Gottfried von Viterbo (c1125-1202). Historical Researcher.
He was educated in Bamberg to work in governmental service. Following his education, he began working in the Papal Chancelery. In the following years he was active in both governmental nad ecclesiastical offices. In light of his duties he was familiar with the highest levels of authority in both circles. He also traveled extensively throughout Europe, and made over 40 trips to Rome itself. During the course of his service, he collected historical material, in his own words, for over fourty years. His works include Gesta Friderice, Memoria seculorum, and Liver universalis, the last in which he chronicled world history from the creation down to the time of Heinrich VI.
He professes himself a follower of Gottfriedvon Strassburg, for whom he entertains the greatest admiration, but his moralizing and didactic tendency differs strikingly from Gottfried's joyous sensualism, and he is prone to diffuseness and redundancy.
"Wilhelm von Orlens", a courtly epic with a conventional love story, is based on a French original and was written for one Konrad von Winterstetten (d.
reprint of a "Willehalm von Orlens" was given by Victor Junk in "Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters" (Berlin, 1905), II; selections from "Alexander" by Junk in "Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache" (1904), 29, 369-469; from "Weltchronik", by Vilmar, "Die zwei Rezensionen und die Handschriftenfamilien der Weltchronik Rudolfs v.
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