GODESCALCUS OF LIMBURG. - German poet and theologian, b. between 1010 and 1020, d. 24 Nov. 1098. He was a Benedictine in the monastery of Limburg on the Haardt Mount and in that of Klingenmünster in the Palatinate; later he became court chaplain of Emperor Henry IV of Franconia and prior of the Liebfrauenkirche in Aachen.
He wrote poems in the form of sequences without rhyme; he compiled Sermones de beata Maria Virgine and De ss. martyribus Irenaeo et Abundio (patrons of the convent of Limburg) and an Opusculum de S. Cruce. Important is the doubt he raised about the bodily Assumption of the Madonna, which aroused lively opposition.
His works were edited by G. M. Dreves, Gottschalk, Münch von Limburg, Leipzig 1897.
Cori, Alba. “Godescalco di Limburg.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 888. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/godescalco-di-limburg.
MLA
Cori, Alba. “Godescalco di Limburg.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 888. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/godescalco-di-limburg.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec6_godescalco_di_limburg,
author = {Cori, Alba},
title = {Godescalco di Limburg},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VI},
pages = {888},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/godescalco-di-limburg}
}
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