'''Ermanno di Wartberge''' (... - circa 1380) fu un [[Cronaca (genere letterario)|cronista]] dell'[[Cavalieri portaspada|Ordine livoniano]]. Nato in [[Vestfalia]], Wartberge fu un [[sacerdote]] cattolico e autore del testo scritto in [[lingua latina]] ''Chronicon Livoniale,'' basato sulle vicende che hanno contraddistinto la [[Crociata livoniana]] (1196-1378).<ref>Bojtár, Endre (1999). Foreword to the Past: A Cultural History of the Baltic People. CEU Press. p. 123. (https://books.google.it/books?id=5aoId7nA4bsC&pg=PA123&redir_esc=y) ISBN 963-9116-42-4</ref> Wartberge si basò su cronache precedentemente redatte (Cronache Livoniane Rimate e Cronaca di Enrico di Livonia), documenti in archivio e conoscenze personali.<ref>{{lt}}Čelkis, Tomas (2009). "Wartbergės kronika". ''[[Enciclopedie lituane|Mažosios Lietuvos enciklopedija]]'' (in Lithuanian). 4. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas. p. 803. ISBN 5-420-01470-X.</ref> Poiché le descrizioni diventano più dettagliate sugli eventi dal 1358 in poi, gli studiosi hanno ritenuto che Wartberge fosse entrato a far parte dell'[[Ordine cavalleresco]] in quel periodo: diventerebbe cosìtivecosì becameplausibile moreritenere detailedcome aroundriuscisse 1358,a itriportare isi believedresoconti thatstorici Wartbergeda joinedtestimone thediretto.<ref>Batūra, OrderRomas around(1996): thehttp://www.sarmatija.lt/images/stories/Baltu%20religija.pdf time(PDF) and(in beganLithuanian). describingI. theVilnius: eventsMokslo asir anenciklopedijų eyewitnessleidykla. pp. 417–418. ISBN 5420013533.<sup>[3]</supref> For example, in 1366 he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Gdańsk (Danzig) and took part in numerous military campaigns against the pagan Grand Duchy of Lithuania.<sup>[3]</sup> Wartberge provided extensive details on localities of the frequent raids and on construction of Livonian fortresses. The chronicle was preserved in the State Archives in Gdańsk and was first published in 1863 by Ernst Strehlke in ''Scriptores Rerum Prussicarum''.<sup>[2]</sup> Translations into Lithuanian and Latvian were published in 1991 and 2005.<sup>[4]</sup>
