Edmund of Hadenham

Edmund of Hadenham (fl. 1307), was an English chronicler.

Edmund was a monk of Rochester, to whom is ascribed, on the authority of William Lambard, the Kentish topographer, an historical work preserved in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum. This manuscript, according to Wharton, contains a chronicle in one handwriting down to 1307, which is a copy of the Flores Historiarum, excepting that it contains a number of interspersed notices relating to the history of Rochester. These Rochester annals are printed in Henry Wharton's 'Anglia Sacra,' i. 341-355 (1691). After 1307 there is a continuation in another hand, extending to 1377, but not dealing with Rochester affairs.

The manuscript formerly belonged to John Joscelin; Lambard, in attributing the work to Hadenham, may have had a different copy before him.

Josiah Cox Russell argued in 1935 that John of Renham, prior of Rochester, was at least a part-author of the annals.^[1]

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^ Buck, M. C. "Hadenham, Edmund of". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11852. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Hadenham, Edmund of". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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[1] Buck, M. C. "Hadenham, Edmund of". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11852. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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