Simeon Of Durham
Simeon of Durham
(Symeon).
Chronicler, d. 14 Oct., between 1130 and 1138. As a youth he had entered the Benedictine monastery at Jarrow which was removed to Durham in 1074, and he was professed in 1085 or 1086, subsequently attaining the office of precentor. His chief work is the “Historia ecclesiae Dunelmensis”, written between 1104 and 1108, giving the history of the bishopric down to 1096. He also wrote “Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum” (from 732 to 1129). The first part down to 957 is based on a northern annalist who made large use of Asser; the next part, to 1119, follows Florence of Worcester; the remainder is an original composition. Simeon’s authorship of this work was vindicated by Rudd (in 1732) against Bale and Selden. He wrote some minor works including “Epistola ad Hugonem de archiepiscopis Eboraci,” written about 1130, and some letters now lost.
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Symeonis Dunelmensis opera omnia, ed. ARNOLD with valuable introduction in Rolls Series (2 vols., London, 1882-5); Symeonis Dunelmensis opera et collectanea, containing everything ever ascribed to him except the Historia ecclesiae Dunelmensis, ed. with introduction by HINDE in Surtees Soc., LI (Durham, 1868); Historical Works of Simeon of Durham, tr. with preface and notes by STEVENSON (London, 1855); HARDY, Descriptive Catalogue of British History (London, 1862- 71); CHEVALIER, Repertoire des sources historiques du moyen age (Paris, 1905), with list of earlier references, s.v. Simon.
EDWIN BURTON Transcribed by Herman F. Holbrook Ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus per Iesum Christum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
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Simeon Of Durham
an English chronicler, taught mathematics at Oxford, and afterwards was proecentor in the cathedral at Durham. We owe to him a Historia de Gestis Regum Anglorum, from 616 to 1129, continued down to 1156 by John of Hexham, and inserted in the Anglicanoe Hstories Scriptores 10 of Twysden (Lond. 1652, fol.). It is mostly a literal reproduction of the Chronicles of Florence of Worcester, who died in 1118. Simeon is likewise the author of a letter De Archiepiscopis Eboraci; and he has given under his own name, without any addition to the work, another production, Historia de Dunellmensi Ecclesia, printed in Twysden’s edition. but which. altogether belongs, as Selden has shown, to Turgot, prior of Durham, who died in 1115. Simeon died after 1130. See Wright, Biogr. Britann. Literaria; vol. 1.