A Flemish lord's clerk writing twenty years on, with a soldier's interest in who fought whom. For 1199 and 1200 he tells John's accession against Arthur, the Norman war and the peace with Philip, and he is the earliest to give the hostile stories about John's marriage to Isabella of Angouleme and the Lusignans' grievance. Thin for 1200 beside the years after 1213, which he saw himself, but a northern French view of the Angevins with Flemish and Artois names in it.
About this source
- Title
- Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre
- Author
- Anonymous of Bethune (a clerk in the household of Robert VII of Bethune)
- Written
- about 1220
- Language
- Old French prose
- Covers
- Rollo to 1220; detailed from 1199
- Kind
- History
The same author wrote the Chronique des rois de France, partly printed in Recueil des historiens des Gaules vol. 24. No English translation.
Where to read it
Editions
- F. Michel (ed.), Histoire des ducs de Normandie et des rois d'Angleterre, Societe de l'histoire de France (1840)
- Michel's edition at Gallica