CHRONICLE OF JOHANNES TRITEMIUS

Amularius, from monk to Archbishop of Trier.

...at Mainz, they are baptized during the time of this first Abbot Lintbert. At this time, a large part of the Danes were converted to the Christian faith through the monks of the monastery of Corvey. These monks, out of love for heavenly happiness, had entered Denmark original: "Daciam," though here referring to the lands of the Danes or Scandinavia to preach the Holy Gospel to the nations. Amularius Fortunatus, a monk of Luxeuil and later the Archbishop of Trier, and eventually a Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, wrote books on the divine offices for Emperor Louis during these days.

The first incursion of the Northmen.

In the twenty-third year of Emperor Louis, under Lintbert, the first abbot of this monastery, the Northmen first landed at the borders of Holland and Gaul. For many years afterward, they wandered here and there with a powerful army and committed infinite evils.

Saint Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht, is martyrized.

In the year of the Lord 838, which was the first year of Abbot Lintbert, on the eighteenth of July, original: "15 calẽdas Auguſti" Saint Frederick, the eighth bishop of the church of Utrecht, was cruelly killed. He became a martyr for the highest truth in the vestry of that same church after the solemnities of the Mass, while he was bowed in devoted prayer. He was slain by two henchmen hired with a bribe by Empress Judith.

The great crime of Empress Judith. The Emperor and his wife are deposed.

For the bishop had said to the Emperor: "It is not lawful for you to have Judith, the daughter of the Duke of Bavaria, as your wife, for she is your close blood relation. Either cast her away, or I shall excommunicate you by the authority of the Almighty." Embittered by these words, the impious Judith killed the herald of truth not long after. When Pope Gregory IV heard of this monstrous crime, he placed Emperor Louis in the monastery of Soissons to perform penance. And Jesse, the Bishop of Amiens, imposed the veil upon Empress Judith, making her a nun like a second Herodias.

Charles the Bald, son of Louis.

By this empress, Louis had a son named Charles, surnamed the Bald, who later became emperor in the year of the Lord 876. Louis appointed him Duke of Bavaria, Swabia, and Burgundy, which his other sons from his first wife bore with great resentment.

Emperor Louis dies.

Finally, in the year of the Lord 840, while Emperor Louis was pursuing his son Lothar, who was rebelling against his father after the penance was completed, he came to the monastery of Hersfeld and fell gravely ill. Traveling by carriage and boat to the imperial palace at Ingelheim, he died immediately on the twentieth of June, original: "12 calendas Iulij" in the twenty-sixth year of his reign. His body was honorably buried by his brother Drogo, the Bishop of Metz, in the church of Saint Arnulf in Metz.

Drogo, the Emperor's brother, from monk to bishop.

This Drogo was the son of Emperor Charlemagne and the brother of Louis I. He was a learned man and a lover of religion. From being a monk, he was made bishop of the aforementioned church of Metz, for the beauty of which he did much.

Louis had sons. A division was made between the brothers.

After the death of the most pious Emperor Louis, his son Lothar succeeded him and ruled for sixteen years. He had three brothers by his father: Pippin, whom he made Duke of Aquitaine; Charles the Bald, to whom fell the western kingdom from the British Ocean to the river Meuse in the paternal division; and Louis, known historically as Louis the German who obtained the eastern kingdom, namely all Germany as far as the currents of the Rhine, along with certain other cities and adjacent districts across the Rhine, perhaps on account of the abundance of wine.

Emperor Lothar.

Lothar himself, being the eldest, received the name of Emperor along with the whole kingdom which we call Lorraine original: "Lotharingiam" after his name even to this day, although it is now a duchy and a whole province. He also received all the kingdoms of Italy along with the City of Rome as his portion. He had a wife named Egilla, Historically Ermengarde of Tours the daughter of the King of England, who bore him two sons: Lothar and Louis, who was later emperor.

Alfrid, from monk to Bishop of Hildesheim.

In these times, Alfrid flourished. He was a monk of the monastery of Corvey and became the fourth Bishop of Hildesheim. He was a man truly beloved by God and most holy in his whole life. He vigorously ruled the church committed to him for twenty-eight years and constructed the greater church of the aforementioned city, in which he is also buried. He was elected bishop in the ninth year of Abbot Lintbert, which was the year of the Lord's incarnation 847.

A synod is celebrated at Mainz by Rabanus.

Archbishop Rabanus...

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