The Ibelin household's version of events in Outremer. For the years around 1200 it gives the death of Henry of Champagne (1197), the marriage of Aimery of Lusignan to Queen Isabella and his rule of Cyprus and Jerusalem, the truce with al-Adil of 1198, the quarrel over Antioch, al-Adil's seizure of Egypt from his nephew in 1200 as seen from Acre, and the Egyptian famine. Its dates are loose and its later part is derivative, but in places it is independent of the Eracles and it is the voice of the Frankish nobility.
About this source
- Title
- Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Tresorier
- Author
- Ernoul, squire of Balian of Ibelin, and later compilers
- Author's dates
- Ernoul fl. 1187
- Written
- the 1187 core soon after the event; the whole in its present form 1227 to 1232
- Language
- Old French
- Covers
- 1100 to 1227, in some manuscripts to 1232
- Kind
- Chronicle
Mas Latrie's 1871 text is the only edition of this redaction. The relationship between Ernoul, the Eracles continuations and the Colbert-Fontainebleau text is disputed (Morgan 1973, Edbury). No English translation of the whole.