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31: 335: 288:, and perhaps also a life of Vicelinus, but the summaries which he made of these records are unreliable. He is, however, the most important source of information for the history of his own period, his account of which rests on the verbal information of Vicelinus and of Gerold. His fund of information becomes noticeably meager after the latter's death in 1163. His trustworthiness was seriously questioned in the 19th century (see particularly Sehirren, 512: 407: 95: 241:(about 800) to 1171. The purpose of this chronicle was to demonstrate how Christianity and the German nationality gradually succeeded in gaining a footing among the Wends, especially in the eastern portion of Holstein. As an eyewitness he gives a clear description in fluent Latin of Vicelinus's missionary labors, of the founding of the bishopric in Oldenburg, of the transfer of this bishopric to 245:
when German commerce at the latter place had become more important than in the former city, of the spread of German influence among the Wends, of the merciless subjugation and extermination of these, and of the summoning to their lands of foreign settlers, principally
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and his partiality for the Oldenburg-Lübeck bishopric, but it should not be supposed that he was guilty of an intentional falsification of facts. The chronicle was first published in 1556 at
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during the Wendish Crusade, there was "only talk of money, never about Christianity" and missionary conversion of the Slavs.
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Helmold drew his knowledge of the earliest period from the church history of
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about 1150, and finally became a parish priest in 1156 at Bosau on
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of Oldenburg (1139–42). Later he came under the direction of
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453:(Frankfort am Main, 1556). The best edition is by 233:, a history of the conquest and conversion of the 307:, XXI (1868), 11-99, and in "Script. rer. Germ." 227:At Bishop Gerold's instigation Helmold wrote his 536: 486: 121:introducing citations to additional sources 570:12th-century German Roman Catholic priests 257:Helmold was a critical historian, calling 379:Learn how and when to remove this message 520: 417: 400: 398: 396: 342:This article includes a list of general 208:, first in the Augustinian monastery of 111:Relevant discussion may be found on the 69:. He was a friend of the two bishops of 29: 14: 560:Chroniclers from the Holy Roman Empire 537: 477:Bibliotheca hist. medaevius. Helmoldus 393: 261:"out for money", and criticizing the 328: 88: 265:. 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