Ends in 1195, so it has no 1200 entries, but it is the indispensable background for Flanders and Hainaut: the career of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut (VIII of Flanders), his union of the two counties, the settlement with Philip over Artois, the rights, castles, fiefs and vassals of Hainaut listed by a man who ran its chancery, and the youth of Baldwin IX, who held both counties in 1200. Precise on feudal detail in a way no narrative of 1200 is.
About this source
- Title
- Chronicon Hanoniense
- Author
- Gislebert of Mons
- Author's dates
- about 1150 to 1225; chancellor of Hainaut
- Written
- about 1195 to 1196
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- about 1050 to 1195
- Kind
- Chronicle
Hainaut lay in the Empire and Flanders in France; the realm key here joins them.
Where to read it
Editions
- L. Vanderkindere (ed.), La chronique de Gislebert de Mons (Brussels, 1904)
- Google scan of the same edition
Translations
- L. Napran, Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut (2005), English, not free (not freely online)