Further Observation, Respecting the Time of the Preceding Event

Most ancient writers, it seems, with whom A. Mellinus also agrees, fix the time of the excommunication and martyrdom of the said Albert at about the year 750. A. M., folio 329, column 1. Seb. Franck fixes it ten years earlier, namely, in the year 740. In Chron. Rom. Kett., folio 64, column 2.

However, this discrepancy can easily be reconciled if a distinction is made between the time when Albert began to teach against the pope and the Roman church, and the time when he was anathematized by the pope, and finally deprived of life in the dungeon at Fulda; for ten years could easily have intervened, and Seb. Franck may therefore have had regard to the time when he began to teach, while the other authors, including Mellinus, may have referred to the time of his death.

Regarding this it appears that John Gysius made a great error, either through incorrect authors or for some other reason, when he fixes the time of the previously mentioned martyr in the year 900. See the margin at the place referred to above.