Bishop Fredericus of Utrecht

Bishop of Utrecht, and martyr, died 834. Feast: 18 July.

A sequence Eia laudes grex pastori is in NL-Uu 417 (Utrecht Prosarium), edited by De Goede.

A hymn Hymnum canamus gratiae / Christo quia est rex gloriae / Et martyris victoriam / Ducamus ad memoriam for Fredericus is edited (text only) by Moll in Kerkgeschiedenis van Nederland voor de hervorming, deel 1 (1864), pp. 531-532. The hymn is taken from an Utrecht codex; no signature is mentioned.

A hymn for Stephanus protomartyr with the same incipit is found in the winter antiphoner, B-TO 63 of O-L-V.-kerk Tongeren, fol. 289v (Ymnum canamus gratie / cristo qui rex est glorie / et stephani martyrium / plebs recolat fidelium; see AH 23, p. 270, nr. 478). Both hymns probably were sung to the same melody.

Zie Hans Walther Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge ..., p. 435, voor een dergelijke hymne voor Lambertus.

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