Alberic of Trois-Fontaines
Alberic of Trois-Fontaines was a medieval Cistercian chronicler who wrote in Latin. He was a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne. He died after 1252. He wrote a chronicle describing world events from the Creation to the year 1241.Life and works
Alberic was likely from a noble Liege family which could afford a good education for him. He became a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey no later than 1230.
In 1232 Alberic began his chronicle Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium and continued working on it at least until 1251 since he used a history by Gilles of Orval Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium. His sources also included the universal chronicle of Sigebert of Gembloux and Books 45-49 of Helinand of Froidmont's Chronicon.
Alberic's chronicle describes world events from the Creation and contains original writing starting from 674, when the relics of St. Benedict were moved from a monastery in Monte Cassino to the Fleury Abbey on the banks of the Loire. The chronicle ends abruptly with a description of the transfer of the body of Jacques de Vitry to the Oignies Abbey in 1241.
Alberic's chronicle was published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica in 1874.
