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This chapter is comprised of annotated and translated source texts on the memory of Joan of Arc.
name, had this privilege and was fortunate in the outstanding men that it engendered. Indeed, it once provided that brightest star, the blessed Richer, in whose patronage and bodily presence Saint-Riquier rejoices to be blessed. It also produced, after those described earlier, a man of glorious memory, Angelran, who surpassed all praise in his own time and whose memory lives for
the memory of the holy men that had evangelised in the area, was revered in cult centres, often served by communities of clergy or by monks, who were devoted to the praise and service of God and bound as individuals by a rule to obey the instructions of an abbot. 5 One such community was established in the first half of the seventh century at Centula on the Scardon rivulet, which joins
could from various parts of all Christendom, with the help of Almighty God and my lord the emperor’s assistance, as is shown in what follows. 37 First, items were brought to us from the holy Roman church, by gift of Pope Adrian [I] of happy memory, and after him of Pope Leo [III], and from Constantinople and Jerusalem through envoys sent there by my lord. Then they were
wielding, in order that the memory of that sword with its powers of life and death should ensure the younger ones dared no further outrage. Queen Berchtrude bore Chlothar a son called Dagobert, 19 a worthy successor to his father in effort and conduct. In fact, in his boyhood Dagobert was placed by his father with Arnulf, later bishop of Metz, so that as his guardian and tutor he might bring him up wisely
glorious memory, which covers how our lord and father conceded to them certain estates from Richer’s material possessions, designated for the monks’ use and expenses, and fully confirmed by imperial precept that at no time should they be taken from them by an abbot’s act of diminution or that of any other person. And then the monks
preserve our peace where he is concerned, with due consideration to our position, that we are indeed willing to do. To do this, Holy Father, is your concern, for you see the savagery of the heathen raging against the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom are contracted every day; and how much it will tarnish your Holiness’s memory if (which God forbid
. Prayer : O God, who, for the peace and tranquillity of the inhabitants of England, willed that the blessed Thomas thy martyr and earl should fall by the sword of the persecutor, grant propitious, that all who devoutly reverence his memory on earth, may merit to obtain worthy reward along with him in Heaven, through our Lord. Prosa : The
you and other sinners. In testimony of which things, for your lordship’s consideration, I have appended [my] seal. Your Manuel de Fieschi, notary to the lord pope, your devoted servant. 56 Memories in the reign of Richard II (a) Richard’s attempt at canonization i Westminster Chronicle , 1385 and 1390, pp
the abovesaid earldom, castles, manors, towns, honours, lands and tenements, hundreds, sheriff’s office, tannaries, minerals and chases pertaining, as abovesaid, in perpetuity, in exactly the same way that the abovesaid Edmund held them at the day of his death and how they came into the hands of the lord Edward once king of England, of celebrated memory, our father. [The same Piers] to perform for us