Pseudo-Ingulf

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Pseudo-Ingulf is the name given to an unknown English author of the Historia Monasterii Croylandensis, also known as the Croyland Chronicle. Nothing certain is known of Pseudo-Ingulf although it is generally assumed that he was connected with Croyland Abbey.

The Historia Monasterii Croylandensis is attributed to Abbot Ingulph, an 11th-century Abbot of Croyland, but is generally accepted to be a 14th-century work. Those parts of the work written after Pseudo-Ingulf, that is in the 15th century, are considered a valuable source. Pseudo-Ingulf himself is not; while he may have had access to genuine traditions or documents at Croyland, "he misunderstood or garbled these beyond any possibility of recognition".{{cite book |year=2001 |editor1-last=Knowles |editor1-first=David |editor1-link=David Knowles (scholar) |editor2-last=Brooke |editor2-first=C. N. L. |editor2-link=Christopher N. L. Brooke |editor3-last=London |editor3-first=Vera C. M. |title=The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales. I: 940–1216 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yo9ZhWY0n_MC&pg=PA41 |edition=2nd |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=41 |isbn=0521804523 |access-date=21 March 2019 }}

A number of distinguished 19th-century historians attempted to extract reliable material from Pseudo-Ingulf, notably E. A. Freeman and Sir Francis Palgrave, with limited success.{{cite book |last1=Thompson |first1=James Westfall |author-link1=James Westfall Thompson |last2=Holm |first2=Bernard J. |date=1942 |title=A History of Historical Writing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pumGAAAAIAAJ&q=%22palgrave+had+noted+some%22 |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |page=352 |access-date=8 June 2022 }}