TAGENO. - He was chaplain and notary of Diepold, bishop of Passau, in 1184; he died at Tripoli before 3 November 1190.

His master took him along to the Holy Land and ordered him to draw up a diary of the events during the Crusade of Frederick Barbarossa, from 1189 to 21 June 1190. His Descriptio expeditionis asiaticae Friderici contains three important letters: the first, addressed by the bishop of Passau to the duke of Austria, must have been drafted by him himself; the second, sent by Frederick I; the third, dispatched to the Emperor by Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem.

The work, published by Fruher-Struve in MGH, Scriptores, I, pp. 407-16, was included, in abridged form, in the Chronicle of the priest Magnus Reicherspergensis in MGH, Script., XVII, pp. 509-16. A partial version was published by J. F. Michaud, in Bibliothèque des Croisades, III, Paris 1829, pp. 23-35.

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BIBL.: A. Chroust, T. Ansbert und die Historia peregrinarum, Gratz 1892, pp. 12-47; W. Wattenbach, Deutschlandsgeschichtesquellen im Mittelalter, II, 6th ed., Berlin 1894, pp. 303 and 315;

L. Bréhier, L'Eglise et l'Orient au moyen âge. Les Croisades, 5th ed., Paris 1926.

Guglielmo Mollat

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