Authorship
There are various theories on who was the author: either an anonymous Benedictine monk of Dioclea (modern Bar) around 1142-1199; or Gregory (Grgur), Archbishop of Antivari 1172-1196; or the Cistercian Rudger (Rudiger), Archbishop of Antivari 1299-1301.
A few biographical notes identifying this author have been preserved in the introductory portion of his pseudo-historical work, The Kingdom of Slavs.
One of the prime controversies of the Chronicle lies in the fact that the Antivari Archepiscopate did not exist between 1142 and 1198 - and that is the time Grgur is supposed to have been the Archbishop.
The Presybyter Rudger (Руђер) was thought to have lived around 1300 because his perception of Bosnian borders coincides with an anonymous text Anonymi Descriptio Europae Orientalis (Cracow, 1916) that was dated to 1308.
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