Jean Froissart

Jean Froissart

male, deceased (1405)
Jean Froissart (c.1337 - c.1405) was one of the most important of the chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, "Froissart's Chronicles" have...
Orderic Vitalis

Orderic Vitalis

male, deceased (1142)
Orderic Vitalis (1075-c. 1142) was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and...
Guaman Poma

Guaman Poma

male
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, best known as Guaman Poma or Human Poma, (c. 1550 - after 1616) was an indigenous Peruvian who became disillusioned...
Adam Of Bremen

Adam Of Bremen

male, 1009 years old
Adam of Bremen (also: Adam Bremensis) was one of the most important German medieval chroniclers. He lived and worked in the second half of the 11th...
Raphael Holinshed

Raphael Holinshed

male
Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580) was an English chronicler, whose work, commonly known as "Holinshed's Chronicles", was one of the major sources...
Robert Of Gloucester

Robert Of Gloucester

male
Robert of Gloucester wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. The "Chronicle"...
Giovanni Villani

Giovanni Villani

male, deceased (1348)
Giovanni Villani ("ca" 1275-1348), the Florentine writer of the famous chronicles (the "Cronica") is the greatest Italian chronicler of his own...
Edward Hall

Edward Hall

male, deceased (1547)
Edward Hall (also Halle; c. 1498-1547), English chronicler and lawyer, was born about the end of the 15th century, being a son of John Hall of...

Walter Bower

male, deceased (1449)
Walter Bower or Bowmaker (1385-1449), Scottish chronicler, was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian. He was abbot of Inchcolm Abbey (in the...
Symeon Of Durham

Symeon Of Durham

male, deceased (1129)
Symeon (or Simeon) of Durham (d. after 1129), English chronicler, embraced the monastic life before the year 1083 in the monastery of Jarrow; but...