Lambert Of Hersfeld

Lambert Of Hersfeld (born 1025—died c. 1088) was a chronicler who assembled a valuable source for the history of 11th-century Germany. Educated in Bamberg, Lambert joined the Benedictine convent of Hersfeld in March 1058 and was ordained the following fall, traveling to the Holy Land the same year. He moved to the Abbey of Hasungen in 1077, helping to initiate its acceptance of the reforms of the Benedictines’ Cluniac order in 1081. His Annales Hersveldenses...