Chronicle of the Bishopric of Constance by Heinrich Murer
(1588-1638, member of the Carthusian monastery at Ittingen from
1614). Heinrich Murer bases his chronicle upon earlier works,
including the Chronicon of Hermannus Contractus (1013-1054), which
was continued by his pupil Berthold von Reichenau into the year
1080, the Chronik der Alten Eidgenossenschaft (Chronicle of the Old
Confederacy) by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1577/78), published in
1547/48; the Chronologia monasteriorum Germaniae praecipuorum by
Caspar Bruschius (1518-1557): the Chronik von dem Erzstifte Mainz
und dessen Suffraganbistümern (Chronicle of the Archdiocesan Abbey
of Mainz and its Suffragan Bishoprics) by Wilhelm Werner, Graf von
Zimmern (1485-1575); the historical works of Christoph Hartmann
(1568-1637) of Frauenfeld, who was librarian of the Einsiedeln
abbey in his later years and who wrote the Annales Heremi Deiparae
Matris in Helvetia together with Franz Guillimann. Murer’s
chronicle extends from the origins of what would later be the
Diocese of Constance in Windisch in the year 411 under Bishop
Paternus to the year 1629 under Bishop Johannes VII.
