Pseudo-Ingulf is the name given to an unknown English author of the ''Historia Monasterii Croylandensis'', also known as the ''
Croyland Chronicle''. Nothing certain is known of Pseudo-Ingulf although it is generally assumed that he was connected with
Croyland Abbey
Crowland Abbey (also spelled Croyland Abbey, Latin: ''Croilandia'') is a Church of England parish church, formerly part of a Benedictine abbey church, in Crowland in the English county of Lincolnshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
History
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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, 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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