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ROGER OF WENDOVER (d. 1236)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 455 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
ROGER OF WENDOVER (d. 1236) , English chronicler, was probably a native of Wendover in Buckinghamshire. At some uncertain date he became a monk of St Albans; afterwards he was appointed prior of the cell of Belvoir, but he forfeited this dignity in the early years of
Henry
  III., having been found guilty of wasting the endowments. His latter years were passed at St Albans, where he died on the 6th of May 1236. He is the first of the important chroniclers who worked in the scriptorium of this
house
 . His
great
 
work
 , the Flores Historiarum, begins at the creation and extends to 1235. It is of
original
  value from 1202. Some critics have supposed, but on inconclusive evidence, that Wendover copied, up to 1189, an earlier compilation, the
work
  of John de Cella, the twenty-first abbot of St Albans (11951214). Wendover's work is known to us through one 13th-century manuscript in the Bodleian library (Douce MS. 207), a mutilated 14th-century copy in the British Museum (
Cotton
  MS. Otho B. v.), and the edition prepared by
Matthew
  Paris which forms the first part of that writer's Chronica Majora (ed. H. R. Luard, Rolls
Series
 , 7 vols.). The best edition of Wendover is that of H. O. Coxe (4 vols., London, 184142); there is another (from 1154) in the Rolls
Series
  by H. G. Hewlett (3 vols., 188689). Wendover is a copious but inaccurate writer, less prejudiced but also less graphic than
Matthew
  Paris. Where he is the sole authority for an event, he is to be used with caution.
See Luard's prefaces to vols. i., ii., iii. and vii. of the Chronica Majora; and the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores, Band xxviii. pp. 3-20. (H. W. C. D.)


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