Roger of Helmarshausen

Roger of Helmarshausen (fl.

12th century) was a well-known goldsmith and metalwork artist, and also a Benedictine monk.

Roger is first heard of in connection with Stavelot Abbey in the Meuse valley, a centerof Mosan art, and especially goldsmith's work.

He works between 1100 and 1107 in St. Pantaleon's church in Cologne.

At least two portable altars made by him are in the treasury of Paderborn Cathedral.

In 1107 he moves to Helmarshausen Abbey, where he establishes a goldsmith's workshop.

In conjunction with the well-known scriptorium, where the Gospels of Henry the Lion are produced later in the twelfth century, he creates several important works in the Romanesque style, including various illuminated codices, as well as many pieces of jewelry.

Roger has been proposed by a number of academics (for example, Albert Ilg (1874) and C.R.

Dodwell (1961)) as the real author of the important medieval treatise De diversis artibus (also Schedula diversarum artium), which is ascribed to the pseudonymous Theophilus Presbyter.

This suggestion is not universally accepted, but has been supported by other academics, including Cyril Stanley Smith (1963 and 1974) and Eckhard Freise (1981).

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