GODFREY OF VITERBO (c. 1120—C. 1196), chronicler, probably an Italian by birth, passed some of his early life at Viterbo, where also he spent his concluding days, but he was edu cated at Bamberg. About 114o he became chaplain to the Ger man king, Conrtd III. ; but the greater part of his life was spent as secretary (notaries) in the service of the emperor Frederick I., who employed him on many diplomatic errands. The only part of Godfrey's voluminous work which is valuable is the Gesta Friderici I., verses relating events in the emperor's career from 1155 to I180. Concerned mainly with affairs in Italy, the poem tells of the sieges of Milan, of Frederick's flight to Pavia in 1167, of the treaty with Pope Alexander III. at Venice, and of other episodes with which the author was intimately acquainted, and many of which he had witnessed. Attached to the Gesta Friderici is the Gesta Heinrici VI., a shorter poem which is often attributed to Godfrey, although W. Wattenbach and other authorities think it was not written by him. His other works are Speculum Regum, and the popular Memoria saeculorum, rewritten as Pantheon.