Pseudo-Ingulf

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.

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".[1]

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.[2]

  1. ^ Knowles, David; Brooke, C. N. L.; London, Vera C. M., eds. (2001). The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales. I: 940–1216 (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 41. ISBN 0521804523. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. ^ Thompson, James Westfall; Holm, Bernard J. (1942). A History of Historical Writing. New York: Macmillan. p. 352. Retrieved 8 June 2022.