Chronicle
Bernold of Constancec. 1073–1100
A year-by-year chronicle kept by a south German monk and priest who supported the reforming popes. For the 1080s and 1090s he writes as a contemporary, among other things of the council of Piacenza in 1095.
Bernold was a cleric of Constance and later a monk at St Blasien and Schaffhausen. For the last decades of the eleventh century his chronicle is a running record made close to the events, and it stops in 1100.
He was a committed partisan of Gregory VII and Urban II: Henry IV (emperor) is to him a deposed king and the pope set up by Henry a heresiarch. His dates and his reports of synods are valuable; his judgments are those of one party.
Cited in
- 1075 to 1077, firm date
- 1095 to 1099, firm date