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David Scotus was a Gaelic chronicler who died in 1139.
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David Scotus was a Gaelic chronicler who died in 1139.
His date of birth is unknown. Early in the twelfth century there was at Würzburg an ecclesiastic and teacher known as David. His surname Scotus shows that he was probably a Gael from either Ireland or Scotland, if he is identical with the homonymous Bishop of Bangor, from Wales.
According to Ekkehard of Aura's Chronicon, Emperor Henry V received him, was charmed with his virtue and knowledge, and made him one of the imperial chaplains. [1] With other scholars, David accompanied Henry on his expedition to Italy in 1110, and was appointed royal historiographer for the occasion with the intention, perhaps, of drafting the emperor's relatio, a brief narrative stringing together the documents of the intended treaty and presenting his master's achievements in the best light. The expedition did not go to plan, with the incumbent Pope Pascal II at first refusing to crown Henry and his wife, Matilda, relenting only after two months of imprisonment. The work written by David has been lost, although it was used as authority in the writings of William of Malmesbury and Ordericus Vitalis. [2]
He died in 1139.
His work in three books is now known only from excerpts of it in later historians, especially in Ekkehard [1] and William of Malmesbury. The latter [3] says that David described the expedition with partiality for the king.
A certain David was consecrated Bishop of Bangor in Wales, 4 April 1120; according to Malmesbury he was none other than the chaplain David Scotus. [3] As bishop, he took part in several English synods, and probably died in 1139, since his successor was then consecrated. But it is not easy to reconcile with the foregoing, the statement of the later historian Trithemius, that David became a monk under St. Macharius in St. James's Abbey in Würzburg, as this abbey was not founded until 1140. [4]
Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "David Scotus". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "David Scotus". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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