Chronicle
Hermann of Reichenaucompleted AD 1054
A world chronicle by a monk of Reichenau on Lake Constance, kept up year by year to his death in 1054. Its last entries are a contemporary German record of Pope Leo IX’s final months.
Hermann wrote the entries for his own lifetime as events were reported at Reichenau, and the chronicle stops with the year in which he died. Under 1053 he tells of Leo IX’s defeat by the Normans and his detention at Benevento; under 1054, of the pope’s return to Rome in sickness as Easter approached and of his death there in April, which he puts on the sixteenth day before the Kalends of May.
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- 16 July 1054, firm date