Bartolf of Nangis or Bartolfus peregrinus was a French

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

who died shortly before 1109.

Writings

His ''Gesta Francorum Iherusalem expugnatium '' is a chronicle of the

First Crusade The First Crusade (1096–1099) was the first of a series of religious wars, or Crusades, initiated, supported and at times directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The objective was the recovery of the Holy Land from Islamic r ...

. It draws heavily on the anonymous '' Gesta Francorum'' but includes some original details, such as information on Bohemond's crusade to the

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, not attested in any other chronicles. Bartolf also draws in places on the original, now-lost 1106 version of

Fulcher of Chartres Fulcher of Chartres (c. 1059 in or near Chartres – after 1128) was a priest who participated in the First Crusade. He served Baldwin I of Jerusalem for many years and wrote a Latin chronicle of the Crusade. Life Fulcher was born c. 1059. His app ...

's history (i.e. not the version we have today, extended to 1120s), making his chronicle particularly useful to scholars of Fulcher's work.Jay Rubinstein, 'Guibert of Nogent, Albert of Aachen, and Fulcher of Chartes: Three Crusade Chronicles Intersect', in M. Bull & D. Kempf (eds.), ''Writing the Early Crusades: Text Transmission and Memory'' (2014), p.26

References

1100s deaths 12th-century French historians French chroniclers Year of birth unknown French male writers 11th-century French historians {{France-historian-stub