Edmund of Hadenham

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Edmund of Hadenham (fl. 1307), was a monk of Rochester and an English chronicler.

On the authority of William Lambard, the Kentish topographer, a historical work preserved in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum is ascribed to Edmund. This manuscript, according to Henry Wharton, contains a chronicle, which is a copy of the Flores Historiarum . It is in one handwriting down to 1307, except[ clarification needed ] that it contains a number of interspersed notices relating to the history of Rochester. These Rochester annals are printed in Wharton's 'Anglia Sacra,' i. 341-355 (1691). After 1307 there is a continuation in another hand, extending to 1377, but not dealing with Rochester affairs.

The manuscript formerly belonged to John Joscelin; Lambard, in attributing the work to Hadenham, may have had a different copy before him.

Josiah Cox Russell argued in 1935 that John of Renham, prior of Rochester, was at least a part-author of the annals. [1]

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References

  1. Buck, M. C. "Hadenham, Edmund of". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11852.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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Wikisource-logo.svg This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Hadenham, Edmund of". Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.