The ''Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium'' ("Deeds of the Bishops of Liège") is a history of the

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written by the monk

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between 1247 and 1251. At about the same time, Gilles also composed an epitome of his history, the ''Gesta episcoporum Leodensium abbreviata''. It was first edited by Johannes Heller for the

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in 1880."Aegidii Aureaevallensis gesta episcoporum Leodiensium", MGH ''Scriptores'', 25 (Frankfurt: 1880), 1–129. Gilles sought to continue the earlier ''gesta'' of

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and

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from 1048 down to 1247. As a historian, he was rather uncritical. His is the earliest account to mention any children of King

Zwentibold Zwentibold (''Zventibold'', ''Zwentibald'', ''Swentiboldo'', ''Sventibaldo'', ''Sanderbald''; – 13 August 900), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was the illegitimate son of Emperor Arnulf.Collins 1999, p. 360 In 895, his father granted ...

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