''Chronicle of Nantes'' (Latin: ''Chronicon Namnetense'', French: ''Chronique de Nantes'') is an eleventh-century Latin chronicle of history extending from 570 to about 1049 AD. The original manuscript, kept in the city of
Nantes, has not survived, but there exist:
# a late fifteenth-century French translation of much of it, made by a certain
Pierre Le Baud
Pierre Le Baud or Lebaud ( – 29 September 1505) was a French clergyman and historian known for his writings on the history of Brittany.
Life
Lebaud was born around 1450, probably in Saint-Ouën-des-Toits, Maine, on the borders of Brittany.
His ...
, who inserted it in two histories of
Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period ...
he wrote;
# Latin excerpts, which have been inserted into other chronicles. The editor of the Chronicle, René Merlet, assembled twenty additional scattered chapters he collected from other sources.
Merlet presented reasons for dating the Chronicle of Nantes to the 1050s, and detected the presence of charters from the cathedral archives of
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
and Nantes, and annals and narratives in the unknown author's source materials.
[David C. Douglas, ed. ''English Historical Documents'' (Routledge, 1979) "Secular Narrative Sources" pp 345f.]
Notes
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Bibliography
*Merlet, Peter (ed.). ''La chronique de Nantes''. Paris, 1896
Scans available from Gallicaand in the US
from Google Books
*Whitelock, Dorothy (tr.). "From the Chronicle of Nantes." In ''English Historical Documents c. 500-1042'', ed. D. Whitelock. English Historical Documents 1. 2nd ed. London, 1979. 345–6. Excerpts relevant to
King Æthelstan of England from chapters 27 and 29.
Nantes, Chronicle of
11th-century history books
11th-century Latin books
11th-century Latin writers
11th-century French historians