This is a list of the most important Chronicle

Chronicle

Generally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the...

s relevant to the kingdom of England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 in the period from the Norman Conquest

Norman conquest of England

The Norman conquest of England began on 28 September 1066 with the invasion of England by William, Duke of Normandy. William became known as William the Conqueror after his victory at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, defeating King Harold II of England...

 to the beginning of the Tudor dynasty

Tudor dynasty

The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a European royal house of Welsh origin that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603. Its first monarch was Henry Tudor, a descendant through his mother of a legitimised...

 (1066-1485). The chronicles are listed under the name by which they are commonly referred to. Some chronicles are known under the name of the chronicler to whom they are attributed, while some of these writers also have more than one work to their name. Though works may cover more than one reign, each chronicle is listed only once, with the dates covered. Only post-conquest dates have been included. Though many chronicles claim to describe history "from the earliest times" (from Brutus

Brutus of Troy

Brutus or Brute of Troy is a legendary descendant of the Trojan hero Æneas, known in mediæval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Britain...

, from the creation, ab urbe condita

Ab urbe condita

Ab urbe condita is Latin for "from the founding of the City ", traditionally set in 753 BC. AUC is a year-numbering system used by some ancient Roman historians to identify particular Roman years...

), they are normally only useful as historical sources for their own times. Some of the later works, such as Polydore Vergil

Polydore Vergil

Polydore Vergil was an Italian historian, otherwise known as PV Castellensis. He is better known as the contemporary historian during the early Tudor dynasty. He was hired by King Henry VIII of England, who wanted to distance himself from his father Henry VII as much as possible, to document...

 and Thomas More

Thomas More

Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...

, are as close to history in the modern sense of the word, as to medieval chronicles.

William I

William I of England

William I , also known as William the Conqueror , was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II...

 (1066-1087), and William II

William II of England

William II , the third son of William I of England, was King of England from 1087 until 1100, with powers over Normandy, and influence in Scotland. He was less successful in extending control into Wales...

 (1087-1100)

• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great...
  
  (-1154)
• Eadmer
  Eadmer
  Eadmer, or Edmer , was an English historian, theologian, and ecclesiastic. He is known for being a contemporary biographer of his contemporary archbishop and companion, Saint Anselm, in his Vita Anselmi, and for his Historia novorum in Anglia, which presents the public face of Anselm...
  
   (-1122)
• Gesta Herwardi
  Gesta Herwardi
  The Gesta Herewardi is the name of a Latin text probably written around 1109-31, recounting the deeds of Hereward the Wake. The Latin text of about 1109-31 claims to be a translation of an earlier work in Old English, with gaps in the damaged original filled out from oral history...
  
  (1070-1071)
• Guy of Amiens (1066)
• Malmesbury
  William of Malmesbury
  William of Malmesbury was the foremost English historian of the 12th century. C. Warren Hollister so ranks him among the most talented generation of writers of history since Bede, "a gifted historical scholar and an omnivorous reader, impressively well versed in the literature of classical,...
  
   (-1127)
• Ordericus Vitalis (-1141)
• Roman de Rou
  Roman de Rou
  Roman de Rou is a verse chronicle by Wace in Norman covering the history of the Dukes of Normandy from the time of Rollo of Normandy to the battle of Tinchebray in 1106...
  
  (-1106)
• William of Jumièges
  William of Jumièges
  William of Jumièges was a contemporary of the events of 1066, and one of our earliest writers on the subject of the Norman Conquest. He is himself a "shadowy figure", only known by his dedicatory letter to King William as a monk of Jumièges...
  
   (-1137)
• William of Poitiers
  William of Poitiers
  William of Poitiers was a Norman chronicler most famous for his eulogistic account of Duke William of Normandy , called the Gesta Guillelmi II ducis Normannorum.-Life:...
  
   (-1068)
• Worcester
  Florence of Worcester
  Florence of Worcester , known in Latin as Florentius, was a monk of Worcester, who played some part in the production of the Chronicon ex chronicis, a Latin world chronicle which begins with the creation and ends in 1140....
  
   (-1117)

Henry I

Henry I of England

Henry I was the fourth son of William I of England. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...

 (1100-1135)

• Henry of Huntingdon
  Henry of Huntingdon
  Henry of Huntingdon , the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th century English historian, the author of a history of England, Historia anglorum, "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy". He served as archdeacon of Huntingdon...
  
   (-1154)
• John of Hexham
  John of Hexham
  John of Hexham was an English chronicler, known to us merely as the author of a work called the Historia XXV. annorum, which continues the Historia regum attributed to Symeon of Durham, and contains an account of English events from 1130 to 1153.From the title, as given in the only manuscript, we...
  
   (1130-1154)
• Simeon of Durham (several)

Stephen

Stephen of England

Stephen , often referred to as Stephen of Blois , was a grandson of William the Conqueror. He was King of England from 1135 to his death, and also the Count of Boulogne by right of his wife. Stephen's reign was marked by the Anarchy, a civil war with his cousin and rival, the Empress Matilda...

 (1135-1154)

• Aelred of Rievaulx (several)
• Chronicle of Holyrood (-1187 with additions to 1355)
• Gervase of Canterbury
  Gervase of Canterbury
  Gervase of Canterbury was an English chronicler.- Life :...
  
   (1100-1199)
• Gesta Stephani (1135-1154)
• John of Salisbury
  John of Salisbury
  John of Salisbury , who described himself as Johannes Parvus , was an English author, educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, and was born at Salisbury.-Early life and education:...
  
   (several)
• William of Newburgh
  William of Newburgh
  William of Newburgh or Newbury , also known as William Parvus, was a 12th-century English historian and Augustinian canon from Bridlington, Yorkshire.-Biography:...
  
   (1160-1198 with a continuation to 1298)
• Richard of Hexham
  Richard of Hexham
  Richard of Hexham was an English chronicler. He became prior of Hexham about 1141, and died between 1155 and 1167.He wrote Brevis Annotatio, a short history of the church of Hexham from 674 to 1138, for which he borrowed from Bede, Eddius and Symeon of Durham...
  
   (several)
• Robert of Torigni
  Robert of Torigni
  Robert of Torigni was a Norman monk and chronicler. He was born at Torigni-sur-Vire in central Normandy, at an unknown date. He entered the monastery of Le Bec in 1128 and became prior there about 1149. He was elected abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel in 1154, and served there until his death.Robert was...
  
   (-1186)

Henry II

Henry II of England

Henry II ruled as King of England , Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland and, at various times, controlled parts of Wales, Scotland and western France. Henry, the great-grandson of William the Conqueror, was the...

 (1154-1189)

• Chronicle of Melrose
  Chronicle of Melrose
  The Chronicle of Melrose is a medieval chronicle from the Cottonian Manuscript, Faustina B. ix within the British Museum. It was written by unknown authors, though evidence in the writing shows that it most likely was written by the monks at Melrose Abbey. The chronicle begins on the year 735 and...
  
  (-1270)
• The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland
  The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland
  The Song of Dermot and the Earl is an anonymous Norman verse chronicle written in the early 13th century. It tells of the arrival of Strongbow in Ireland in 1170 , and of the subsequent arrival of Henry II of England....
  
  (Song of Dermot and the Earl) (-1175)
• Diceto
  Ralph de Diceto
  Ralph de Diceto was archdeacon of Middlesex, dean of St Paul's Cathedral , and author of two chronicles, the Abbreviationes Chronicorum and the Ymagines Historiarum.-Early career:...
  
   (several)
• Etienne de Rouen
  Étienne de Rouen
  Étienne de Rouen was a Norman Benedictine monk of Bec-Hellouin of the twelfth century, and a chronicler and poet. He is known for his Arthurian poem Draco Normannicus , at the same time a chronicle from the eleventh century to 1169; it draws on Dudo of St. Quentin and William of Jumièges...
  
   (-1169)
• Fantosme
  Jordan Fantosme
  Jordan Fantosme was an Anglo-Norman historian, chronicler, and trouvère. He was a cleric and probably the spiritual chancellor of the Diocese of Winchester. His major work is an Anglo-Norman verse chronicle of the war between Henry II of England and his son Henry the Young King and William I of...
  
   (1173-1174)
• Geoffroy of Vigeois
  Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois
  Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois was a 12th century French chronicler.He was trained at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Martial of Limoges, the site of a great early library....
  
   (-1184)
• Gesta Regis Henrici II
  Abbas Benedictus
  Abbas Benedictus , abbot of Peterborough, whose name is accidentally connected with the Gesta Henrici Regis Secundi and Gesta Regis Ricardi, among the most valuable of English 12th century chronicles, which are now attributed to Roger of Howden.Benedictus first makes his appearance in 1174, as the...
  
  (1169-1192)
• Giraldus Cambrensis
  Giraldus Cambrensis
  Gerald of Wales , also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times...
  
   (several)
• L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal
  L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal
  L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal is the verse biography of William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke , written shortly after his death at the request of his son. The biography is composed of 19,214 lines, in rhyming octosyllabic couplets, and was written in the Anglo-Norman language. It is the major...
  
  (c. 1140-1219)
• Rigord
  Rigord
  Rigord was a French chronicler, was probably born near Alais in Languedoc, and became a physician.After becoming a monk he entered the monastery of Argenteuil, and then that of Saint-Denis, and described himself as "regis Francorum chronographus".Rigord wrote the Gesta Philippi Augusti, dealing...
  
   (1179-1208)

Richard I, the Lionheart

Richard I of England

Richard I was King of England from 6 July 1189 until his death. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Count of Nantes, and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period...

 (1189-1199)

• Ambroise
  Ambroise
  Ambroise was a Norman poet and chronicler of the Third Crusade, author of a work called L'Estoire de la guerre sainte, which describes in rhyming Old French verse the adventures of Richard Coeur de Lion as a crusader...
  
   (1190-1192)
• Itinerarium Regis Ricardi
  Itinerarium Regis Ricardi
  The Itinerarium Regis Ricardi is a Latin prose narrative of the Third Crusade, 1189-1192. The first part of the book concentrates on Saladin's conquests and the early stages of the crusade, with a long description of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa...
  
  (1190-1192)
• Coggeshall
  Ralph of Coggeshall
  Ralph of Coggeshall , English chronicler, was at first a monk and afterwards sixth abbot of Coggeshall, an Essex foundation of the Cistercian order....
  
   (1066-1223)
• Richard of Devizes
  Richard of Devizes
  Richard of Devizes , English chronicler, was a monk of St Swithin's house at Winchester.His birthplace is probably indicated by his surname, Devizes in Wiltshire, but of his life we know nothing. He is credited by Bale with the composition of the Annales de Wintonia, which are edited by Henry...
  
   (1189-1192)
• Roger of Howden (-1201)

John of England 1199-1216)

• Coventry
  Walter of Coventry
  Walter of Coventry , English monk and chronicler, who was apparently connected with a religious house in the province of York, is known to us only through the historical compilation which bears his name, the Memoriale fratris Walteri de Coventria....
  
   (-1225)
• Wendover
  Roger of Wendover
  Roger of Wendover , probably a native of Wendover in Buckinghamshire, was an English chronicler of the 13th century.At an uncertain date he became a monk at St Albans Abbey; afterwards he was appointed prior of the cell of Belvoir, but he forfeited this dignity in the early years of Henry III,...
  
   (-1235)
• William the Breton
  William the Breton
  William the Breton , French chronicler and poet, was as his name indicates born in Brittany.He was educated at Nantes and at the University of Paris, afterwards becoming chaplain to the French king Philip Augustus, who employed him on diplomatic errands, and entrusted him with the education of his...
  
   (See Rigord, above)

Henry III

Henry III of England

Henry III was the son and successor of John as King of England, reigning for 56 years from 1216 until his death. His contemporaries knew him as Henry of Winchester. He was the first child king in England since the reign of Æthelred the Unready...

 (1216-1272)

• Annales S. Pauli Londoniensis (1064-1274)
• Chronicle of Lanercost (1201-1346)
• Fitz Thedmar
  Arnold Fitz Thedmar
  Arnold Fitz Thedmar was a London chronicler and merchant; he was born in London.- Biography :Both Arnold Fitz Thedmar's parents were German in origin...
  
   (1188-1274)
• Flores Historiarum
  Flores Historiarum
  The Flores Historiarum is a Latin chronicle dealing with English history from the creation to 1326 . It was compiled by various persons and quickly acquired contemporary popularity, for it was continued by many hands in many manuscript traditions...
  
  (-1326)
• Matthew Paris
  Matthew Paris
  Matthew Paris was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire...
  
   (-1259)
• Morins
  Richard de Morins
  Richard de Morins was an English canon lawyer. He was Archdeacon of Bologna, and taught law at the University of Bologna. On his return to England, he was a canon of Merton Priory, before becoming prior at Dunstable Priory in 1202.-Jurist:...
  
   (-1297)
• Rishanger
  William Rishanger
  William Rishanger , nicknamed "Chronigraphus", was an English annalist and Benedictine monk of St. Albans.-Writings:Rishanger quite likely wrote the Opus Chronicorum, a continuation from 1259 of Matthew Paris's Chronicle. In effect it is a history of his own times from 1259 to 1307, a spirited and...
  
   (1259-1307)
• Robert of Gloucester
  Robert of Gloucester (historian)
  Robert of Gloucester wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. The Chronicle survives in some 16 manuscripts, ranging in date from the early fourteenth to mid-fifteenth centuries, and was of considerable interest to contemporaries...
  
   (-1270)
• Wykes
  Thomas Wykes
  Thomas Wykes , English chronicler, was a canon regular of Oseney Abbey, near Oxford.He was the author of a chronicle extending from 1066 to 1289, which is printed among the monastic annals edited by Henry Richards Luard for the Rolls Series. He gives an account of the Second Barons' War from a...
  
   (1066-1289)

Edward I

Edward I of England

Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...

 (1272-1307)

• Annales Londonienses (1194-1330 with a gap 1293-1301)
• The Brus
  The Brus
  The Brus is a long narrative poem of just under 14,000 octosyllabic lines composed by John Barbour which gives a historic and chivalric account of the actions of Robert the Bruce and the Black Douglas in the Scottish Wars of Independence during a period from the circumstances leading up the English...
  
  (1286-1332)
• Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
  Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes
  The Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes is a medieval chronicle written in Latin, probably around 1290.-Authorship:The chronicle was written by a monk of the Benedictine abbey of St...
  
  (c. 1290)
• Fordun
  John of Fordun
  John of Fordun was a Scottish chronicler. It is generally stated that he was born at Fordoun, Mearns. It is certain that he was a secular priest, and that he composed his history in the latter part of the 14th century; and it is probable that he was a chaplain in the St Machar's Cathedral of...
  
   (-1383)
• Guisborough (1048-1346)
• Pierre de Langtoft (-1307)
• Trevet (1135-1307)

Edward II

Edward II of England

Edward II , called Edward of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed by his wife Isabella in January 1327. He was the sixth Plantagenet king, in a line that began with the reign of Henry II...

 (1307-1327)

• Annales Paulini
  Annales Paulini
  The Annales Paulini is an English medieval chronicle. The Chronicles of St Pauls, as the Annales Paulini might be translated, is thought to have been written by a canon of St Paul's cathedral. Because it covers the period of 1307-1341 it is invaluable for the history of Edward II's reign...
  
  (-1307 with continuation to 1341)
• Baker
  Geoffrey the Baker
  Geoffrey the Baker , English chronicler, is also called Walter of Swinbroke, and was probably a secular clerk at Swinbrook in Oxfordshire....
  
   (1303-1356)
• Gesta Edwardi de Carnarvan (1307-1377)
• Polychronicon
  Ranulf Higdon
  Ranulf Higden was an English chronicler and a Benedictine monk of the monastery of St. Werburgh in Chester....
  
  (-1352)
• Scalacronica
  Scalacronica
  Scalacronica is a Scottish chronicle written in Anglo-Norman by the knight Sir Thomas Gray of Heaton in Northumberland, while he was imprisoned by the Scots at Edinburgh after an ambush in 1355...
  
  (1066-1362)
• Trokelowe
  John of Trokelowe
  John of Trokelowe was an English Benedictine of the fourteenth century. He was a monk of St Albans Abbey, who in 1294 was living in the dependent priory of Tynemouth, Northumberland...
  
   (1307-1326)
• Vita Edwardi Secundi
  Vita Edwardi Secundi
  The Vita Edwardi Secundi is a Latin chronicle most likely written in 1326 by an unknown English medieval historian contemporary to Edward II. It covers the period from 1307 until its abrupt end in 1326....
  
  (1307-1326)

Edward III

Edward III of England

Edward III was King of England from 1327 until his death and is noted for his military success. Restoring royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father, Edward II, Edward III went on to transform the Kingdom of England into one of the most formidable military powers in Europe...

 (1327-1377)

• Eulogium Historiarum (-1366)
• Froissart
  Jean Froissart
  Jean Froissart , often referred to in English as John Froissart, was one of the most important chroniclers of medieval France. For centuries, Froissart's Chronicles have been recognized as the chief expression of the chivalric revival of the 14th century Kingdom of England and France...
  
   (1307-1400)
• Herald of Chandos
  John Chandos
  Sir John Chandos, Viscount of Saint-Sauveur in the Cotentin, Constable of Aquitaine, Seneschal of Poitou, KG was a medieval English knight who hailed from Radbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Chandos was a close friend of Edward, the Black Prince and a founding member and 19th Knight of the Order of the...
  
  
• Knighton
  Henry Knighton
  Henry Knighton was an Augustinian canon at the abbey of St. Mary of the Meadows, Leicester, England. He was a canon at the Abbey since at least 1363, when he was recorded as being present during a visit from the King.-The chronicle:He wrote a four-volume chronicle, first published in 1652,...
  
   (1066-1395 with a gap 1366-1377)
• Le Bel (1272-1361 poor until 1326)
• Murimuth
  Adam Murimuth
  Adam Murimuth was an English ecclesiastic and chronicler.-Life:He was born in 1274 or 1275 and studied civil law at the University of Oxford. Between 1312 and 1318 he practised in the papal curia at Avignon...
  
   (1303-1347)
• Venette
  Jean de Venette
  Jean de Venette was a French chronicler and a Carmelite friar born at Venette, near Compiègne. He was referred to as a "Fillions", author or translator of a long poem circa 1357. In 1339, he became prior of the Carmelite convent in the Place Maubert, Paris, and was provincial of France from 1341...
  
   (1340-1368)

Richard II

Richard II of England

Richard II was King of England, a member of the House of Plantagenet and the last of its main-line kings. He ruled from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard was a son of Edward, the Black Prince, and was born during the reign of his grandfather, Edward III...

 (1377-1399) and Henry IV

Henry IV of England

Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland . He was the ninth King of England of the House of Plantagenet and also asserted his grandfather's claim to the title King of France. He was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, hence his other name, Henry Bolingbroke...

 (1399-1413)

• Creton (most valuable for 1399)
• Kirkstall Chronicle (-1400)
• Monstrelet
  Enguerrand de Monstrelet
  Enguerrand de Monstrelet , French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Picardy.In 1436 and later he held the office of lieutenant of the gavenier at Cambrai, and he seems to have made this city his usual place of residence...
  
   (1400-1444)
• Usk
  Adam of Usk
  Adam of Usk was a Welsh priest, canonist, and late medieval historian and chronicler.- Patronage :Born at Usk in what is now Monmouthshire, southeast Wales, Adam received the patronage of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, who inherited the Lordship of Usk through his wife Philippa...
  
   (1377-1404)
• Walsingham
  Thomas Walsingham
  - Life :He was probably educated at St Albans Abbey at St Albans, Hertfordshire, and at Oxford.He became a monk at St Albans, where he appears to have passed the whole of his monastic life, excepting a period from 1394 to 1396 during which he was prior of Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, another...
  
   (several, among these The St Albans Chronicle)

Henry V

Henry V of England

Henry V was King of England from 1413 until his death at the age of 35 in 1422. He was the second monarch belonging to the House of Lancaster....

 (1413-1422)

• Capgrave
  John Capgrave
  John Capgrave was an English historian, hagiographer and scholastic theologian-Schooling:Capgrave was born in Bishop's Lynn, now King's Lynn, Norfolk – "My cuntre is Northfolke, of the town of Lynne"...
  
   (-1417)
• Elmham
  Thomas Elmham
  -Life:He was probably born at North Elmham in Norfolk. He may have been the Thomas Elmham who was a scholar at King's Hall, Cambridge from 1389 to 1394...
  
   (see Henrici V Gesta below)
• Henrici V Gesta (1413-1416)
• Le Fevre
  Jean Le Fevre
  Jean Le Fevre was a Burgundian chronicler and seigneur of Saint Remy. He is also known as Toison d'or because he served as King of Arms to the Order of the Golden Fleece. Of noble birth, he adopted the profession of arms and with other Burgundians fought in the English ranks at Agincourt...
  
   (1408-1435)

Henry VI

Henry VI of England

Henry VI was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. Until 1437, his realm was governed by regents. Contemporaneous accounts described him as peaceful and pious, not suited for the violent dynastic civil wars, known as the Wars...

 (1422-1461 and 1470-1471)

• Amundesham (1421-1440)
• Blondel (1449-1450)
• Croyland Chronicle
  Croyland Chronicle
  The Croyland Chronicle is an important, if not always reliable, primary source for English medieval history, in particular the late fifteenth century. It was written at the Benedictine Abbey of Croyland, in Lincolnshire, England, off and on from 655 to 1486, and its first author claimed to be...
  
  (1149-1486)
• Hardyng
  John Hardyng
  John Hardyng , English chronicler, was born in the north.As a boy he entered the service of Sir Henry Percy , with whom he was present at the Battle of Shrewsbury . He then passed into the service of Sir Robert Umfraville, under whom he was constable of Warkworth Castle, Northumberland, and Kyme...
  
   (-1437)
• Great Chronicle of London (1189-1512)
• Gregory's Chronicle
  William Gregory
  William Gregory may refer to:*William Gregory * William G. Gregory , NASA astronaut* William Gregory , American governor...
  
  (1189-1469)
• Short English Chronicle (-1465)
• Waurin
  Jehan de Waurin
  Jehan de Waurin , French chronicler, belonged to a noble family of Artois, and was present at the battle of Agincourt....
  
   (-1471)
• Worcester
  William Worcester
  William Worcester , was an English chronicler and antiquary.-Life:He was a son of William of Worcester, a Bristol citizen, and is sometimes called William Botoner, his mother being a daughter of Thomas Botoner from Catalonia....
  
   (1324-1468, 1491)

Edward IV

Edward IV of England

Edward IV was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death. He was the first Yorkist King of England...

 (1461-1470 and 1471-1483)

• Brief Latin Chronicle (1422-1471)
• Hardyng
  John Hardyng
  John Hardyng , English chronicler, was born in the north.As a boy he entered the service of Sir Henry Percy , with whom he was present at the Battle of Shrewsbury . He then passed into the service of Sir Robert Umfraville, under whom he was constable of Warkworth Castle, Northumberland, and Kyme...
  
   (-1464)
• Commynes (1464-1498)
• Fabyan
  Robert Fabyan
  Robert Fabyan , chronicler, was born in London, of which hebecame an Alderman and Sheriff. He kept a diary of notable events, whichhe expanded into a chronicle, which he entitled, The Concordance of Histories. It covers the period from the arrival of Brutus in England tothe death of King Henry VII...
  
   (-1485)
• Historie of the arrivall of Edward IV
  Historie of the arrivall of Edward IV
  The Historie of the Arrivall of Edward IV. in England and the Finall Recouerye of His Kingdomes from Henry VI. A.D. M.CCCC.LXXI is a chronicle from the period of the Wars of the Roses. As the title implies, the main focus of the work is Edward IV's arrival in England in 1471 to reclaim his crown...
  
  (1471)

Richard III

Richard III of England

Richard III was King of England for two years, from 1483 until his death in 1485 during the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty...

 (1483-1485)

• Hall
  Edward Hall
  Edward Hall , English chronicler and lawyer, was born about the end of the 15th century, being a son of John Hall of Northall, Shropshire....
  
   (1399-1547)
• Mancini
  Dominic Mancini
  Dominic Mancini was an Italian who visited England in 1482, left in 1483 and left behind an account of the events he witnessed. He called it: De Occupatione Regni Anglie per Riccardum Tercium ....
  
   (1483)
• Polydore Vergil
  Polydore Vergil
  Polydore Vergil was an Italian historian, otherwise known as PV Castellensis. He is better known as the contemporary historian during the early Tudor dynasty. He was hired by King Henry VIII of England, who wanted to distance himself from his father Henry VII as much as possible, to document...
  
   (1538)
• Rous
  John Rous
  John Rous was the senior naval officer on the Nova Scotia station during Father Le Loutre's War . He made a significant contribution to the preservation of Halifax and the defeat of the French, Acadian and Mi'kmaq resistance...
  
   (-1485)
• Thomas More
  Thomas More
  Sir Thomas More , also known by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England and, for three years toward the end of his life, Lord Chancellor...
  
   (1452-1485)

External links

• History of English chronicles Yale U.