Liber Historiae Francorum

Liber Historiae Francorum ( LHF ) is a spätmerowingische chronicle, which was formerly known as the Gesta Francorum. It was written around 727 in 53 chapters. The sources are, in addition to the first six books of Gregory of Tours ( to 584 AD), especially oral traditions as well as possibly epic traditions and lost texts. The so-called Fredegar Chronicle was not known to the author.

The author's name is not known. The research is, however, generally assume that he must have had closer ties with Paris or Laon, because he wrote primarily about the Neustrian area.

See also: Incorrect Merovingian

Editions and translations

  • Bruno Krusch (ed.): Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 2: Fredegarii et aliorum Chronica. Vitae sanctorum. Hannover 1888, pp. 215-328 ( Monumenta Historica Germaniae, digitized )
  • GH heart, J. Grimm, R. Lachmann, L. Ranke, R. Knight (Ed. ): The historian of the German past. VI. Century. Gregory of Tours. Ten Books of Frankish history. B. VII - X. legends from Fredegar and the chronicle of Frankish kings. Berlin 1851
  • Bernard S. Bacharach: Liber Historiae Francorum. Lawrence ( Kansas) 1973
  • Herbert Haupt ( translator's ): Liber Historiae Francorum. The Book of the History of the Franks ( slightly abridged). In: Andreas Kusternig, Herbert Haupt (ed.): Sources for the History of the 7th and 8th century ( Selected sources on German history of the Middle Ages 4a). Darmstadt 1982, p 338ff.
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