[of Aix-la-Chapelle; Albertus canonicus Aquensis]
fl. early 12th century. Germany. Cleric at Aachen (Rhineland) and supposed author of a Latin Historia Ierolsolimitana (History of the Journey to Jerusalem), though this is a late attribution: the earliest manuscripts have neither author's name nor title.
The work was written concurrently with or soon after the events of the first crusade (1095-99) and the period of early settlement in Outremer (1099-1119), evidently by a cleric in the Rhineland area using mainly oral sources, that is, the…