ABSTRACT
(Ed. O. Holder-Egger and B. von Simson (2nd edn, Hannover-Leipzig, 1916: MGH in usum scholarum), pp. 107–8; also in Lemmens, Testimonia Minora (see no. 7), pp. 17–18.) Burchard was a German Premonstratensian canon, prior of Ursberg in the diocese of Augsburg, who at the end of his chronicle speaks out strongly for the Emperor, Frederick II, against Pope Gregory IX, the friend of Francis and Dominic; so he had no parti prìs for the Curia and its supporters. His account of the sects gives a valuable impression of how they and the new Orders appeared to a contemporary a little remote from the centres of their activities. His book was finished c. 1230 and he probably died soon after. The passage is set under the year 1213, but was probably written in the 1220s.
