Henry (de) Blaneforde or Blankfrount () was an English chronicler and a Benedictine monk of St. Albans.
[Carley 2004.] He wrote a short continuation of the chronicle of Trokelowe for the years 1323 to 1324.
[Hunt 1886, p. 204.]
Works
A fragment of his chronicle has been preserved. Beginning with the year 1323 he possibly intended to continue the work of
Trokelowe, which ends at 1330.
The text of his chronicle, however, ends incomplete in 1324 as a result of loss of leaves.
The only manuscript of Blaneforde now known to exist is in the British Library.
John Stow, who took notes from this, thought Blaneforde made reference to an event of 1326, but the entry in fact relates to the trial of
Adam Orleton
Adam Orleton (died 1345) was an English churchman and royal administrator.
Life
Orleton was born into a Herefordshire family, possibly in Orleton, possibly in Hereford. The lord of the manor was Roger Mortimer, to whose interests Orleton was lo ...
, bishop of Hereford, in 1323.
In the Cotton manuscript Blaneforde's chronicle follows the ''Annals of Trokelowe'' without break. From this manuscript
Hearne printed the work in his ''Annales Edwardi II'', Oxford, 1729; it has been edited by
H. T. Riley in the ''Chronica Monasterii S. Albani'',
Rolls Series.
Name
From a reference to this writer as "Blankforde" in Walsingham's ''History'', Riley believes that he took his name from
Blanquefort, near Bordeaux, called Blanckeforde in the ''Annals of Waverley''. Blaneforde's name is mentioned in a notice of the historians of
St. Albans
St Albans () is a cathedral city in Hertfordshire, England, east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, north-west of London, south-west of Welwyn Garden City and south-east of Luton. St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman ...
in a fragment printed in the Rolls edition of the ''Annals of John Amundesham''. For a Blaneford, evidently in Somerset, see a charter of Edward II in
Dugdale's ''Monasticon''.
[Hunt 1886, pp. 204–205.]
References
Sources
* Caley, John; Ellis, Henry; Bandinel, Bulkeley, eds. (1846). ''Monasticon Anglicanum''
Vol. 6, Part 1 London: James Bohn. p. 415.
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* Luard, Henry Richard, ed. (1865). ''Annales Monastici''
Vol. 2 (Rolls Series). London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. p. 404.
* Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. (1863). ''Thomæ Walsingham, … Historia Anglicana''
Vol. 1 (Rolls Series). London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green. p. 170.
* Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. (1866).
Johannis de Trokelowe, Henrici de Blaneforde, … Chronica et Annales'. London: Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer. pp. 131–162.
Attribution:
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Further reading
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Hardy, Thomas Duffus, ed. (1871). ''Descriptive Catalogue of Materials Relating to the History of Great Britain and Ireland''
Vol. 3 London: Longman & Co., Trübner & Co. p. 386.
* Hearne, Thomas, ed. (1729).
Johannis de Trokelowe Annales Edvardi II, Henrici de Blaneforde Chronica, et Edvardi II Vita'. Oxford. Theatro Sheldoniano.
* Riley, Henry Thomas, ed. (1870). ''Annales monasterii S. Albani a Johanne Amundesham''
Vol. 2 (Rolls Series). London: Longman & Co.; Trübner & Co. p. 303.
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14th-century English clergy
14th-century English writers
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