HENRY OF HUNTINGDON: English historian; b. c. 1084; d. 1155. He was brought up in the household of Robert Bloet, bishop of Lincoln, and was made archdeacon of Huntingdon in 1109 or 1110. In 1139 he visited Rome with Archbishop Theobald. On his way he stopped at the monastery

of Bee, making the acquaintance there of Robert de Monte (de Torigny), the Norman historian, who drew his attention to the Historic Britonum of Geoffrey of Monmouth. This circumstance, added to a request from Alexander, bishop of Lincoln, led him to write his well-known Historic Anglorum, covering the period from 55 B.c. to 1154 A.D. The work was first printed in H. Savile's Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam (London, 1596), reprinted at Frankfort in 1601, also in MPL, cxcv. 799-978, and edited by T. Arnold in the Rolls Series (London, 1879). An English translation by T. Forester will be found in Bohn's Antiquarian Li brary, vol. xxi. (London, 1853). A letter by Henry, De eontemptu mundi, is reprinted in E. L. d'AchSry's Spicidegium, vol. iii. (Paris, 1723), pp. 503-507; in MPL, cxcv. 979-990, and in Arnold's edition of the history.

Bibliography: T. D. Hardy, in the Introduction to the Monuments historica Britannica (which contains his chronicles), London, 1848; T. Wright, Biographic Bri tannim literaria, ii. 167-173, ib. 1846; F. Liebermann, in PorsAungen sur deutschen G ewhiehte, xviii (1878), 267-295; DNB, xxvi. 118-119.

HENRY OF KALKAR (HEINRICH AEGER or EGER): Carthusian; b. at Kalkar (55 m. n.w. of Düsseldorf) 1328; d. at Cologne Dec. 20, 1408. He studied theology and philosophy in Paris, and afterward received a canonical prebend on the St. George's foundation at Cologne and Kaiserswerth. In 1365 he resigned this position and entered the Carthusian Order at Cologne. On account of his erudition and earnest piety he was selected to direct sundry houses of the order, being prior at Munickhuizen, near Arnheim, 1367-72, at Roermund 1372-77, at Cologne 1377-84, and at Strasburg 1384-96. Because of bodily infirmity he then returned to the cloister in Cologne. For twenty years he was visitator of the order's Rhenish province, and five times he was definitor in its general chapter.

Henry was renowned as a fervent adorer of Mary, whom he extolled in poems, and whose rosary devotions he introduced far and wide. He had an exceptional influence upon the spiritual awakening and the conversion of Geert Groote (q.v.), the founder of Brothers of the Common Life, who spent considerable time with him. This accounts for the similarity in thought between Henry and Groote and his followers, and also for the fact that he has been thought the author of the Imitatio of Thomas A Kempis.

Henry's writings, often copied with those of the Brothers, particularly Thomas, have not yet been collected. They are: (1) De ortu ac propream (or decursu) ordinis Carthu. siani (1398); Hartaheim saw the original in the Cologne library (no. 117); a copy is also in the Darmstadt library (no. 819) and at Münster (no. 171); the chronicle no. 517 in Vienna is also doubtless the same work. (2) Loquapium de rhetorica for the Carthusiane at Utrecht, where an ex. tract is still preserved (rose. 251 nod. avi ecclea.). (3) Cantuapium de musim. (4) Ds cont%nenhis et distinctions scion. tiarum. (5) Epistolee varim ad diversos. (6) Sermonea capitulares breves: Epistolm of sermonee in a manuscript of 1483, in the library at Münster (171). (7) Scala spiritualis exercitii psr modum orationis. (8) De holoaauato quotidiano apiritualis exercitii (found by De Vooys in Mains). (9) Liber exhortationis ad Petrum quondam Carthusia Con¢uentice religiosum. (10) Modus faeiendi collationes more Carthusiano. In print there are only: (1) Psaledrium seu rosarium

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B. Virpinis, 160 dicbionea in ejuadam laudem (Cologne, 1809; of. also the little known poem printed by Aoquoy). (2) A treatise found by T. A. Liebner in 1842 in a Quedlinburg manuscript and attributed by him to Thomas I< Kempis, whose authorship was denied by Ullmann (TSK, 1843); other manuscripts are known, one of which (Brussels, no. 11889) bears the inept title Speculum peccatorum, added by a later hand; the beet text on the basis of all manuscripts is given by Hireche (pp. 482-504; cf. pp. 470 sqq.).

L. Schulze.

Bibliography: Thomas A Kempis, Vita Gerhardi, chap. iv., Eng. trend. by J. P. Arthur in Founders of the New Devotion, pp. 9-11, London, 1905; Trithemius, De vir. ill., in J. A. Fabrieius, Bibliotheca Latina medii et infima wtatis, iii. 885, Hamburg, 1748; V. Andrew, Bibliotheca Bslpica, p. 358, Louvain, 1843; G. H. M. Delprat, Verhandelinp over de Broderahap van G. Groote, p. 10, Utrecht, 1822; W. Moll, Korkpewhiedenie van Nederland, ii. 2, pp. 119 sqq., Utrecht, 1871; J. G. R. Acquoy, Hot Klooster to Windesheim, p. 23, Utrecht, 1875; K. Hireohe, Prolegomena su liner newn Auapabe der fmitatio Christi, i. 514 sqq., Berlin, 1883; L. Schulze, in ZKG, vol. ix., 1888; KL, v. 1700-01.