Saxo Grammaticus

Saxo Grammaticus

male, deceased (1220)
historian, Medievalhistorian, roman, ancient rome, Danish, archbishop
Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish medieval historian of whose life practically nothing is known. The sixteen books of Danish history of this time,...
Petrarch

Petrarch

male, deceased (1374)
Italian Renaissance writer, Italian Renaissance humanist, Sonneteers, Renaissance Latin author, Renaissance humanist, Latin writer…Medieval Latin author, Medievalhistorian
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarcha) (July 20, 1304 - July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early Renaissance humanist. Petrarch is often...
Gregory Of Tours

Gregory Of Tours

male, deceased (594)
Georgius Florentius Gregorius, Early medieval Latin writer, gaul, Tours, Medievalhistorian, bishop…historian
Saint Gregory of Tours (c. 538 - November 17, 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He...
William Of Tyre

William Of Tyre

male, deceased (1185)
Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic bishop, Chronicler, From Jerusalem, archbishop, Medievalhistorian…historian
William of Tyre (c. 1130 - 1185) was archbishop of Tyre and a chronicler of the Crusades and the Middle Ages.
Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris

male, deceased (1259)
painter, Manuscript illuminators, From st albans, Writer-illustrator, illuminated manuscript, watercolour…Medieval writer, historian, Medievalhistorian
Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259) was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans...

David Herlihy

male, deceased (1991)
Harvard University, Yale University, Brown University, University of San Francisco, historian, Yale University alumni…Medievalhistorian
David Herlihy (1930 - 1991) was an American historian who wrote on medieval and renaissance life. Particular topics include domestic life,...
William Of Malmesbury

William Of Malmesbury

male, deceased (1143)
monk, historian, English historian, Medievalhistorian, Norman conquest of England, wiltshire…Medieval writer
William of Malmesbury (c. 1080/1095-c. 1143), English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father...
Roger Of Wendover

Roger Of Wendover

male, deceased (1236)
monk, Henry III, St Albans Abbey, Medieval writer, From buckinghamshire, English…Medievalhistorian
Roger of Wendover (died May 6, 1236), probably a native of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, was an English chronicler of the 13th century. At some...
Giraldus Cambrensis

Giraldus Cambrensis

male, deceased (1223)
Gerallt Gymro, Gerald de Barri, Manorbier Castle, chronicler of his times, Anglo-Norman in Wales, Gerald of Wales…Medievalhistorian, historian
Giraldus Cambrensis (c. 1146 - c. 1223), also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Gerald of Wales in English, was a medieval clergyman and...
Nennius

Nennius

1209 years old
Runic alphabet, Arthurian literature, Catholic, Annales Cambriae, 9th century, Historia Brittonum…Medieval writer, historian, Medievalhistorian
Nennius, or Nemnivus, is either of two shadowy personages traditionally associated with the history of Wales. The better known of the two is...