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Dudo, or
Dudon was a
Norman historian, and dean of
Saint-Quentin, where he was born about
965. Sent in 986 by
Albert I, Count of Vermandois, on an errand to
Richard I, Duke of Normandy, he succeeded in his mission, and, having made a very favorable impression at the Norman court, spent some years in that country. During a second stay in
Normandy, Dudo wrote his history of the Normans, a task which Duke Richard had urged him to undertake. Very little else is known about his life, except that he died before
1043.
Written between 1015 and 1030, his
Historia Normannorum, or
Libri III de moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum, was dedicated to
Adalberon, bishop of Laon. Dudo doesn't appear to have consulted any existing documents for his history, but to have obtained his information from
oral tradition, much of it being supplied by
Raoul, count of Ivry, a half-brother of Duke Richard. Consequently the
Historia partakes of the nature of a
romance, and on this ground has been regarded as untrustworthy by such competent critics as
Ernst Dümmler and
Georg Waitz. Other authorities, however, for example,
J. Lair and
J. Steenstrup, while admitting the existence of a legendary element, regard the book as of considerable value for the history of the Normans. Although Dudo was acquainted with
Virgil and other
Latin writers, his Latin is affected and obscure. The
Historia, which is written alternately in
prose and in
verse of several
metres, is divided into four parts, and deals with the history of the Normans from 852 to the death of Duke Richard in 996. It glorifies the Normans, and was largely used by
William of Jumièges,
Wace,
Robert of Torigni,
William of Poitiers and
Hugh of Fleury in compiling their chronicles, and was first published by
A. Duchesne in his
Historiae Normannorum scriptores antiqui, at
Paris in 1619. Another edition is in the
Patrologia Latina, tome cxli, of
J. P. Migne (Paris, 1844), but the best is perhaps the one edited by J. Lair (Caen, 1865).
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