Albert of Stade

He joined the Benedictine Order and entered the monastery of Harsefeld [de] near Stade.

He was opposed both to the lax enforcement of the Benedictine Rule at Harsefeld and to the introduction of the stricter Cistercian observance.

For this reason he resigned as abbot in 1240 and joined the Franciscan friary of Saint John in Stade.

The early portions appear to have been based on Bede's Libellus de sex aetatibus mundi and Ekkehard's Chronicon.

[1] He is credited with Raimundus, a versification of Raymond of Penyafort's Summa de casibus poenitentiae,[1] and with Troilus, a Latin epic about the Trojan War in 5,320 lines.

The building of secularised St John's Friary, Stade, housing a memorial plaque and a small exhibition on Albert of Stade