About Alpert of Metz
Lived 1000 – 1024. Alpert of Metz was a German monk, historian and writer.
Alpert of Metz (died 1024) was a Benedictine chronicler of the eleventh century. His De diversitate temporum is a major source for the history of Western Europe (particularly for France, Western Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) in the period it covers, which is 990 to 1021. It was dedicated to Burchard of Worms.
Alpert wrote other works, including a partial biography of Bishop Dietrich I of Metz.
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Who was Alpert of Metz?
historian
When was Alpert of Metz born?
Alpert of Metz was born in 1000.
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Alpert of Metz died in 1024.
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Alpert of Metz was a monk, historian and writer.
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Alpert of Metz was German.
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