The Annals of Montecassino, 1189-1195 (translation)

This unpublished translation relates to the Conquest of Southern Italy by Henry VI.

The Annales Casinenses survive in several different versions, the last of which finishes in 1212. The section from 1183-95 seems to be written by a single author, more or less contemporaneously with the events described, and originally came in the format translated below in two manuscripts, the first (now lost) used by Erasmo Gattula, the Cassinese archivist and historian of the early eighteenth-century, who believed it to have been copied c. 1270, the other (Berlin 296), was written in 1314. The section here has been translated by G.A. Loud from Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores xix.314-18.