Pseudo-Ingulf is the name given to an unknown English author of the ''Historia Monasterii Croylandensis'', also known as the ''
Croyland Chronicle
The ''Croyland Chronicle'', also called ''Crowland Chronicle'', is an important primary source for English medieval history, particularly the late 15th century. It is named for its place of origin, the Benedictine Croyland Abbey, Abbey of Croyl ...
''. Nothing certain is known of Pseudo-Ingulf although it is generally assumed that he was connected with
Croyland Abbey.
The ''Historia Monasterii Croylandensis'' is attributed to Abbot
Ingulph, an 11th-century Abbot of Croyland, but is generally accepted to be a 14th-century work. Those parts of the work written after Pseudo-Ingulf, that is in the 15th century, are considered a valuable source. Pseudo-Ingulf himself is not; while he may have had access to genuine traditions or documents at Croyland, "he misunderstood or garbled these beyond any possibility of recognition".
A number of distinguished 19th-century historians attempted to extract reliable material from Pseudo-Ingulf, notably
E. A. Freeman and Sir
Francis Palgrave
Sir Francis Palgrave, (; born Francis Ephraim Cohen, July 1788 – 6 July 1861) was an English archivist and historian. He was Deputy Keeper (chief executive) of the Public Record Office from its foundation in 1838 until his death; and he is ...
, with limited success.
Footnotes
External links
* Ingulphi Abbatis Croylandensis historiarum, Liber I, in ''Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores Post Bedam Praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi'' (G. Bishop, R Nuberie & R. Barker Typographij Regii, London 1596)
digitized (Google)Google provides a copy of a translation of the text into English.
14th-century English historians
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