The French court's own chronicle for the year, from the monk of Saint-Denis who called himself the king's chronographer. For 1200 Rigord gives the interdict laid on the kingdom in January over the repudiated Queen Ingeborg and its lifting in September when Philip took her back, the peace with John at Le Goulet on 22 May and Louis's marriage to Blanche of Castile the next day, the peace of Peronne with Baldwin of Flanders in January, the Paris riot and the king's privilege for the scholars, and prodigies and prices. His later books are cooler toward Philip than the early ones. Dates are mostly sound; motives are the court's.
About this source
- Title
- Gesta Philippi Augusti
- Author
- Rigord
- Author's dates
- about 1150 to about 1209; monk of Saint-Denis
- Written
- about 1186 to 1206, in stages
- Language
- Latin
- Covers
- 1179 to 1206
- Kind
- History
No English translation. The 2006 edition replaces Delaborde's text but is under copyright.
Where to read it
Editions
- H.-F. Delaborde (ed.), Oeuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton, Societe de l'histoire de France, vol. 1 (1882), the two Gesta
- Delaborde vol. 1 at Gallica
- E. Carpentier, G. Pon and Y. Chauvin (eds and trans.), Rigord, Histoire de Philippe Auguste (2006), Latin with French, not free (not freely online)
Translations
- F. Guizot, Vie de Philippe-Auguste par Rigord, Collection des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France, vol. 11 (1825), French; not located online in this pass (not freely online)
- B. Zeller and A. Luchaire, Philippe-Auguste et Louis VIII: extraits de Rigord, de Guillaume le Breton and others (1884), French extracts