Absalon

Family: Danes · Role: Chief Pontiff · First appears: Preface · Part 1

Life events

• Absalon commissioned the compilation of a chronicle of Denmark.(Preface · Part 1)
  • “Absalon, Chief Pontiff of the Danes, whose zeal ever burned high for the glorification of our land, and who would not suffer it to be defrauded of like renown and record, cast upon me, the least of his followers--since all the rest refused the task--the work of compiling into a chronicle the history of Denmark”
• Absalon died before the chronicle was completed.(Preface · Part 1)
  • “And since, ere my enterprise reached its goal, his death outran it”

Preface · Part 1

• with Andrew (Andrew was chosen as Absalon's successor.) “I entreat thee chiefly, Andrew, who wast chosen by a most wholesome and accordant vote to be successor in the same office and to headship of spiritual things”

Also listed in Danes — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Danish History, Books I–IX. Made with Rho MD.