Embrico of Mainz (''Embricho Moguntinus'') is the author of the ''Vita Mahumeti'', a Latin biography of Muhammad. The text is in rhyming leonine hexameters, extending to 1,148 lines. It was modelled on the verse hagiography of contemporaries such as Hildebert of Le Mans. It was most likely written between 1072 and 1090. The author of the ''Vita'' has been identified with the future provost of

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, Embricho II. Embrico's text is roughly contemporary with the ''Dei gesta per Francos'' by

Guibert of Nogent Guibert de Nogent (c. 1055 – 1124) was a Benedictine historian, theologian and author of autobiographical memoirs. Guibert was relatively unknown in his own time, going virtually unmentioned by his contemporaries. He has only recently caught the ...

. Both texts are in the tradition of the ''Chronographia'' of

Theophanes the Confessor Theophanes the Confessor ( el, Θεοφάνης Ὁμολογητής; c. 758/760 – 12 March 817/818) was a member of the Byzantine aristocracy who became a monk and chronicler. He served in the court of Emperor Leo IV the Khazar before taking ...

, including the account of Muhammad's epilepsy and his body being eaten by pigs after his death.Nicholas Morton, ''Encountering Islam on the First Crusade'', Cambridge University Press (2016)
p. 213

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Translation of Embrico of Mainz's ''Vita Mahumeti''
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