The Angevin houses' own annals of the succession crisis in their city: Arthur received at Angers in 1199 with Constance and the Breton and Angevin barons, John's counter-moves, the defection of William des Roches and the Angevin lords to John, and the peace of 1200 that left Arthur John's vassal. The entries are short but local and dated, and they name the seneschals, bishops and abbots who held Anjou in 1200.
About this source
- Title
- Chroniques des eglises d'Anjou
- Author
- Various (monks of Angers and the Loire)
- Written
- 11th to 13th centuries; the Saint-Aubin annals run to the 1220s
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- various; the Angers annals cover 1199 and 1200
- Kind
- Annals
No translation. The companion volume Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou (Marchegay and Salmon, 1856 to 1871) holds the counts' deeds to the 12th century and is background only.
Where to read it
Editions
- P. Marchegay and E. Mabille (eds), Chroniques des eglises d'Anjou, Societe de l'histoire de France (1869)
- Marchegay and Mabille at Gallica
- L. Halphen (ed.), Recueil d'annales angevines et vendomoises (1903), the better edition of the annals; not located online in this pass (not freely online)