Aventindex

## Index to *Bavarian Chronicle* (1520) by Johannes Aventinus, translated by Ras Feqade

When first printed in Early Late Middle High German in AD 1520, the Bavarian Chronicle of Johannes Turmayr aka Aventinus was like a supernova of the print revolution that seriously influenced the historiography of the remainder of the 16th century, and continued to receive attention even into the 1800s. Now for the first time, 500 years after it appeared in print, it has been allowed for an annotated draft translation into conventional English of this forgotten classic to be prepared online where readers may follow along for free.

### List of Chapters:

* 1. [Chapters 1-7 not translated yet]
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* 8. Of the Emperor **Tuitsch** or Teutsch, the first hero, noble and father of the Germans, Danes and Winds and Wends.
* 9. What heroes and kings went with the Emperor Tuitscho and where they presently settled, and of the first king Gomer and his three sons.
* 10. Beginning of idolatry, how and when it came about.
* 11. Of the time when everything went right, everyone had plenty, when the 'gods' were walking on earth and the heroes ruled, whom the ancients called 'gods', and of the (as the poets and even old historians call it) golden world.
* 12. Of the Laws and Ordinances of the land that King Tuitsch made.
* 13. How King Tuitsch also invented a different abc and script.
* 14. When Abraham was born.
* 15. How this King Tuitsch having died, was canonized and set in Heaven by his people.
* 16. Of king **Mann**, son of the aforementioned king Tuitsch or Teutsch, the second Emperor in Germany, he is the German Jupiter.
* 17. Of Abraham, how God spoke to him, made him a prince, noble and father of all believers.
* 18. How and where Noah died, and of his housewives, who established the first nunnery; and Noah built the city of Genoa.
* 19. Of the giants and great people, how agriculture and the schools or schrans were invented.
* 20. Of Semiramis the queen at Babylon, how she widened the same city.
* 21. Of King Mann's sons, how the city Trier and other cities were built in the Rhineland, of the Rhine Palatinate.
* 22. Of the third hero and Emperor in Germany, with the name **Eingeb**, Saxon Ingeu, Greek and Latin Ingevon.
* 23. How at this time there arose giants everywhere, men and women, and they did much nuisance to the people.
* 24. How Abraham circumcised himself, and how the wild fire from heaven burned down the five cities; everything happened in a year.
* 25. Of the fourth Emperor in Germania, in our language **Ausstab**, Saxon Ustau, in Latin and Greek Istevon.
* 26. How the druids, the first monks, were founded in the land now called France, what kind of life and being they provided.
* 27. How the brothers of the mother of all gods inhabited the islands of Rhodes and Candia.
* 28. Of King **Herman**, the fifth emperor in Germania.
* 29. Of the warriors and at first of the men.
* 30. Of the war and armor.
* 31. Of the beginning of war and ending.
* 32. Of manslaughter and enmity.
* 33. Of pastimes.
* 34. Of inspection and removal.
* 35. Of the merchants.
* 36. Of wine, how the old Germans didn't drink it nor let it be brought to them: how they honored King Herman.
* 37. Of Isaac, Abraham's son.
* 38. Of the King Sala and Shem, when they died.
* 39. Of King Bard, who reigned in France.
* 40. Of King Oryz in Egypt.
* 41. Of the sixth king in Germany with the name **Mers**, how the above mentioned hero, King Oryz came to him.
* 42. Of the second large flood.
* 43. Of the patriarch Jacob, how he had to take flight, since his brother Esau threatened to strangle him.
* 44. Of King **Gampar**, the seventh king in Germany.
* 45. Of the mightiest and most famous hero in the world, king Lybis in Egypt, commonly called Hercules and called Lehabim in the Bible, of Bavaria too as he would be here, as Schreitwein and Freithilf, the earliest Bavarian historians, signify.
* 46. Of King **Schwab**, the eighth emperor in Germania.
* 47. Of Lady Eisen.
* 48. How Joseph died in Egypt and the Jews after his death were held in evil.
* 49. Of King **Wandler**, the ninth Emperor in Germany.
* 50. Of king Atlas in Spain and White Moors.
* 51. Of the tenth king in Germania, with the name King **Deuto** or Teutscho, in Latin Teuton.
* 52. Of Moses, the Jews' captain, how he was born.
* 53. Of the eleventh king in Germany, king **Alman**, called the German Hercules.
* 54. How at this time a great chastisement happened over the world with water, fire and death.
* 55.  Of the Jews and Moses in Egypt, how they ended up.
* 56. Of the city of Athens.
* 57. Of a big wedding in Italy.
* 58. Of king **Baier** and his brothers, the twelfth king in Germany, whom the very ancient before Christ's birth called Boiger in full, Boier for short. Later the ancient called him Baiger in full, Baier for short as now, it is in Latin Boius, in New Latin Baioarius and Boiarius. It is common to get the proper naming after changing the language, as with the story of the name Chunrad: it is Franconian Chuno for short, Swabian Chuenla, Bavarian Chunz Chüenzl. Such is indicated above at the beginning, so it is unnecessary to continue to write about it.
* 59. Of king Norein, the eldest son of Hercules.
* 60. Where King Haun, the second son of King Alman, and his brothers Abo, Glan and Schyther settled.
* 61. Of the third son of the Bavarian Hercules, with the name Helvos.
* 62. Of the part of King Baier, the youngest son of the German and Bavarian Hercules.
* 63. Of Mied and Math, the sons of the German Hercules.
* 64. How King Baier along with his brothers a great people, German and Windish, men and women, fought even in Asia and in the land one now calls Tartary, up to Greater Armenia and the river Euphrates; one called them the Kempher and Mazen, like now the landsknecht and Swiss. Of Theuer and Abo.
* 65. Of the war women.
* 66. Of the Jews and Moses, how he led them in the wilderness forty years, how they were also led into the promised land by their chief Joshuah, who is called Jesus in Greek and Latin.
* 67. How in Italy one brother drove out the other, how the Kingdom of Troy began.
* 68. How also in Egypt at this time one brother chased out the other.
* 69. Of King **Ingram** in Bavaria.
* 70. Of Othoniel, the second captain and mayor of the Jews.
* 71. Of other kings in other lands.
* 72. Of King **Adalger** in Bavaria; what the German knights and ladies got in their time for a journey.
* 73. Of the third and fourth captain of the Jews Aioth and also Sangar.
* 74. What notable kings were in other countries at this time.
* 75. Of the notable soothsayers and prophets, at this time whereof the Greeks and pagans have written much.
* 76. Of the pagan women and prophetesses, several who lived before and after these times, and are referred to as sibyls (of whom the old poets and historians, Greeks and Romans, Christians and pagans, also the common man among us still sing and say much;) how many they were.
* 77. Of king **Larein**, the fifteenth Emperor in Germania, and what the German knights and ladies in his time did in Asia.
* 78. Of the prophetess Debbora and Barak, the fifth and sixth highest captains of the Jews.
* 79. What well-known heroes and princes in other neighboring countries were in the times of King Larein
* 80. Of King **Ylsing**, the emperor in Germania, and what happened in his time all over the world.
* 81. Of the captains of the Jewish people, at first of Gedeon with the shovel, the seventh captain of the Jews, and his son King Abimelech, likewise of the ninth captain Thola.
* 82. Of other famous nobles in other countries.
* 83. Of King **Brenner** the First, who reigned thirty-eight years with us.
* 84. Of the Jews and their captains, the tenth, eleventh and twelfth, with names Jair, Jepte and Abesson.
* 85. What had happened splendidly in other lands among the pagans of this time: of the Greek Hercules and his company.
* 86. Of king **Heccar**, for short Hag, the nineteenth king in Germany around the Danube and in Bavaria, Nordgau and Bohemia.
* 87. Of the captains of the Jews, the thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth, with the names Ahialon, Abdon, Samson.
* 88. Of the vast, powerful city of Troy, across the sea in Asia against Greece and Constantinople, as this side of the sea in Europe, about how it was destroyed.
* 89. Of the Latins, whence the Romans came.
* 90. What happened to the Greek princes when they returned home.
* 91. Of King **Frank**.
* 92. Of the Jews proceeding directed after the captains of God, namely the bishop Heli.
* 93. Of the king of the Latins in Italy.
* 94. Of King **Wolfheim Siclinger**.
* 95. About the Jews, how they begged a king against the will of God, and God gave king Saul, which they were not willing to allow: and further, how Saul was rejected from the kingdom and David came to the kingdom by the mercy of God.
* 96. Of the kings in Italian lands.
* 97. Of Greece.
* 98. Of King **Kels** and his brethren, who ruled above and below the Danube.
* 99. What the ancient names of the Germans were and from when they came.
* 100. Of the Jews and King David and his son, king Solomon, who built the first church by the special grace of God.
* 101. What happened to the heathens in other countries at this time.
* 102. Further of the above-mentioned three brethren, who ruled in Germany according to Sag Appiani of Alexandria and named the country and people in all of Europe from Greeks to Hispania after them; how they were then called by the ancient Greeks and Latins and now even more so in Latin and Greek.
* 103. Of King **Alber** and his six cousins, who reigned with us, likewise too of the Jews and their kings, namely Solomon and Rehoboam and Abiah, who in the time of the aforementioned king had charge of the Jews.
* 104. Of the kings at Jerusalem.
* 105. Of Jeroboam, the first king of Israel, and his son.
* 106. Of the kings of the Latins.
* 107. Of king **Walther**, who ruled Italy, Germany from this side of Parthenberg up to Hispania, and his cousins Panno and Schardn.
* 108. Several reasons why the Jewish kings' histories are also told.
* 109. Of the kings and those who came here in Jerusalem, the 5 6 7 8 named Aza, Josaphat, Joram, Ochozias; how the dynasty of king Solomon died.
* 110. Of the other kings of the Jews, who were mighty in the ten places.
* 111. Of the Latin kings in Italy, of Homer the poet and of Rhodis.
* 112. Of the German kings **Main** or Moin and **Angel**, and their cousin king Treibl.
* 113. Of the kings at Jerusalem with the names Joas and Amasiah.
* 114. Of the kings of Israel.
* 115. Of the mightiest city of Ninos or Nineveh, how it was broken, together with the ancient empire of Assyria.
* 116. The old kings from the land of Media, who were under the aforementioned kings of Babylon, and were wiped out by Cyrus, the first emperor of the Persians.
* 117. Of the Latin Kings and what was special at this time in adjoining countries.
* 118. Of the German and Bavarian kings **Myela**, **Laber** and **Penno**, and what a big change happened at this time all over the world.
* 119. Of the kings of Jerusalem, who reigned at this time, namely Ozias, Jonathan, Achaz, Ezechias, whom the Jews call Hizkiah.
* 120. How the kings of Israel of the ten places of Jewishness, together with their kings, were ruled out, so that they had raised up, or held up, an admiring worship service, not ordered and commanded by God, so that God did not seek a home only in Jerusalem.
* 121. What happened in other adjoining countries. At first of the beginning of the city of Rome and the Roman Empire.
* 122. Of several stories of people of this time.
* 123. Of the ancient calendar of the Greeks.
* 124. Of the German and Bavarian kings **Venno** and **Helto**, also the Roman kings.
* 125. Of the Jewish kings from Jerusalem, Manasses and Ammon his son.
* 126. What notably happened in other countries.
* 127. Of the German King **Mader** the Second, it is Frankish Meder, for short Maer and Meer.
* 128. Of the kings of Jerusalem Josias and his son, how the kingdom also became exiled from the wrath of God.
* 129. What happened in other lands, what there was for notable people.
* 130. Of king **Brenner**, the second, and **Könman**, king of the Bavarians in Bohemia; how at this time in the Swabian kingdom, the Bavarian in Bohemia, the Bavarian (Walha) in Italy, the Walhish (the older) between the Inn, Bodensee and Danube, in these lands (as we now call Swabia, Upper and Lower Bavaria) the one chased the other away, driven away and eaten like wild animals.
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