''Genealogiae scriptoris Fusniacensis'' or ''Genealogia regum Francorum tertiae stirpis'' is the conventional

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title given to a collection of

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of the Capetian dynasty going back to 866. It is especially useful for the light it sheds on the noble families of

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. It was composed at the Abbey of Foigny in the

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between 1160 and 1162, probably by the reigning abbot, Robert. Its twelve

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are now preserved as 1–12 in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France ( MS 9376). It has been edited twice. Its second editor, Georg Waitz, divided it into twenty chapters.

Notes

Editions

* Michel Jean Joseph Brial, ed
"Genealogia regum Francorum tertiae stirpis"
''Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France'' (Paris: 1806), 1–10 * Georg Waitz, ed
"Genealogiae scriptoris Fusniacensis"
'' Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', Scriptores, 13 (Hanover: 1881), 251–56. French royalty Medieval manuscripts {{manuscript-stub