RICHARD OF CLUNY (of Poitiers). - Chronicler and poet, b. probably in Aunis around 1120, d. after 1188.

From his works it can be deduced that he was a monk in the Cluniac priory of the Île d'Aix near Rochefort. From a journey to England, between 1143 and 1154, he drew great enthusiasm, as his poems show, but his principal work is a universal chronicle from the creation to 1171. It is a compilation of earlier chronicles, which later served Martin of Troppau (Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum) and Bernard Gui (Flores chronicorum); three different redactions of it are known, going respectively up to 1153, 1162 and 1171; the last, reworked by a different hand, was continued up to 1174. In addition there remain a Catalogus Romanorum Pontificum, from the apostle Peter to Alexander III, into which notices about the abbots of Cluny are inserted, and a chronicle of Aunis, which in the tearful style of the prophets narrates the destruction of Châtel-Aillon.

Bibliography

BIBL.: manuscripts, edition of the works in A. Potthast, Biblioth. hist. m. aevi, II, Berlin 1896, p. 969 and in A. Molimer, Sources de l'hist. de France, II, Paris 1902, n. 2202, pp. 315-16. See also J. Schnack, R. v. Cl., seine Chronik u. s. Kloster, in Historische Studien, 1921.

Clemente Schmitt

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Richard of Cluny (of Poitiers)

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