The English chronicler Matthew Paris in his Chronica Majora described Alexander as red-haired:

Bede follows Gildas ' account of Ambrosius in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, but in his Chronica Majora he dates Ambrosius ' victory to the reign of the Emperor Zeno ( 474 – 491 ).

Drawn from life by the historian Matthew Paris for his Chronica Majora, it can be seen in his bestiary at Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, with an accompanying text revealing that at the time, Europeans believed that elephants did not have knees and so were unable to get up if they fell over.

* his Chronica Majora ( a universal history )

* 1257 – Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for a week straight while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.

* Matthew Paris, English historian, personally interviews King Henry III of England for an entire week while compiling his major work of English history, Chronica Majora.

His Chronica Majora is an oft-cited source, though modern historians recognize that Paris was not always reliable.

This Chronica Majora is an important historical source document, especially for the period between 1235 and 1259.

* Chronica Majora Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Ms 26, 16, 362 x 244 / 248 mm.

* Historia Anglorum 1250-9 British Library MS Royal 14. C. VII, 358 x 250 mm, ff 232, also the last volume of the Chronica Majora, and various other items, including maps of the Holy Land and the British Isles, an itinerary from London to Apulia, a full-page Virgin and Child with Matthew Paris kneeling before them ( illustration above, his most monumental work ), and a genealogy of the Kings of England with seated portraits.

Haakon's shield from his 1247 coronation, according to Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora.

Roger's work is known to us through one 13th century manuscript in the Bodleian Library ( Douce manuscript 207 ), a mutilated 14th century copy in the British Library ( Cotton manuscript Otho B. v .), and the edition prepared by Matthew Paris which forms the first part of that writer's Chronica Majora ( ed.

i, ii, iii and vii of the Chronica Majora

Drawn from life by the historian Matthew Paris for his Chronica Majora, it was the first elephant to be seen in England since Claudius ' war elephant.

The post-Conquest historians Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum, Roger of Wendover's Flores Historiarum and Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora substitute his father's name for Eorcenwine ( Erkenwine, Erchenwine ).

A double-headed eagle is attributed to Frederick II in the Chronica Majora ( ca.

File: Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor. jpg | First depiction of the Reichsadler as double-headed ( coat of arms of emperor Otto IV from the Chronica Majora, ca.

* Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris ; Vol i. pp. 440, 422.

* Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris ; Vol iv.

* Chronica Majora, Matthew Paris ; Vol v. pp. 101, 129, 179, 223, 238 – 9, 268 – 9, 355, 450, 505, 507, 690, 719.

* The chronicles of Matthew Paris ( Matthew Paris: Chronica Majora ) translated by Helen Nicholson 1989

1250 heraldic shields in Matthew Paris ' Chronica Majora, while the ca.

In the 13th-century versions of the diagram, the caption " FILIUS " is placed in the bottom node, and often a cross is drawn in the link between the center node and the bottom node, in order to symbolize the idea that the Second Person of the Trinity entered into the world ( or that " The Word was made flesh ", as is stated in a Latin annotation on the diagram included in Matthew Paris ' Chronica Majora which quotes from the Vulgate of John verse 1: 14 ).

* The diagrams in Matthew Paris ' Chronica Majora and the De Quincy Apocalypse ( Lambeth palace ms. 209, folio 53r ) are not online, but are shown in the Michael Evans journal article ( also, a full-page color reproduction of the Lambeth Apocalypse illustration is on page 48 of the Rodney Dennys book ).

From Matthew Paris's Chronica Major, Marshal unhorses Baldwin de Guisnes.

The relation of Matthew Paris's work to those of John de Celia ( John of Wallingford ) and Roger of Wendover may be studied in Henry Richards Luard's edition of the Chronica majora ( 7 vols., Rolls series, 1872 – 1881 ), which contains valuable prefaces.

The name appears to have been taken from that of Matthew Paris, from whose Chronica majora the earlier part of the work was mainly copied, and from Westminster Abbey, where the work was partially written.

* Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora

# Matthew Paris, Chronica Maiora ( died 1259 )

; Left: A slightly schematized version of the forms of the diagram found in several 13th-century manuscripts, including a 1208-1216 manuscript of Peter of Poitiers ' Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christi, the heraldic shields in Matthew Paris ' " Chronica Majora " ( 1250-1259 A. D .), and a 1247-1258 manuscript of the writings of John of Wallingford.

Further information is supplied by works of historians writing in the 12th and 13th centuries, who appear to have used pre-Conquest material, i. e. Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum, Roger of Wendover's Flores Historiarum and Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora.

* Chronica do Descobrimento e Conquista da Guiné ( Paris, 1841 ; Eng.

* Garcia de Resende, Chronica ;

Roger had initially referred to Conrad " having slain a prominent nobleman in a rebellion " — meaning Branas ; in his Chronica, he condensed this to " having committed homicide ", omitting the context.

A short note in Helmold's Chronica Slavorum states that West Slavs believe in a single deity in heaven who rules over all the other deities on earth ; the name of this deity is not mentioned, but nevertheless it seems quite possible this was a reference to Perun.

The Chronica de origine civitatis was composed sometime before 1231, but there is little comparison between this work and Villani's ; mid-20th-century historian Nicolai Rubinstein states that the legendary accounts in this earlier chronicle were " arbitrarily selected by a compiler whose learning and critical faculties were considerably below the standard of his age.

( Prosper ; Chronica Gallica 452 ; Hydatius ; and Sidonius Apollinaris )

On 15 or 24 November 700, Wittiza was anointed king ; this forms the last entry in the Chronica Regum Visigothorum, a Visigothic regnal list.

* Chronica minora 1, 2.

Chronica Minora saec.

* Ruy de Pina, Chronica d ' el Rei D. João II.

By that time most knowledge of Saxo ’ s work came from a summary located in Chronica Jutensis, from around 1342, called Compendium Saxonis.

( 2005 ) The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, 1376 – 1422.

In the earliest extant manuscripts it is referred to as Liber episcopalis in quo continentur acta beatorum pontificum Urbis Romae, and later the Gesta or Chronica pontificum.

The earliest mention of the female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century.

* Roger of Hoveden, Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene, ed.

The chief work of Severus is the Chronicle ( Chronica, Chronicorum Libri duo or Historia sacra, c. 403 ), a summary of sacred history from the beginning of the world to his own times, with the omission of the events recorded in the Gospels and the Acts, " lest the form of his brief work should detract from the honour due to those events ".

These include Robert of Torigni's work, Roger of Howden's Gesta Regis Henrici Secundi and Chronica, Ralph Diceto's works, William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum, and Gervase of Canterbury's works.

A detailed account of the abbey at this date exists in the Chronica monasterii Cassinensis by Leo of Ostia and Amatus of Monte Cassino gives us our best source on the early Normans in the south.

According to the 1463 Chronica Austriae by chronicler Thomas Ebendorfer the duke on 23 May 1420, at the behest of the Church, ordered the imprisonment and forcible conversion of the Jews.

Image: Jagelló Ulászló. jpg | Imaginary portrait from Thuróczi János ' Chronica Hungarorum ( Władysław was only 20 when he died )

The most important chronicle of the period is the Chronica Boemorum ( Bohemian Chronicle ) by Kosmas, though it does approach its topics with then-contemporary politics in mind, and attempts to legitimize the ruling dynasty.

* Pertz Chronica ævi Suevici ( Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 23 ) ( 1874 ): 874 ( Chron.

The first is the Chronica Albeldensia, written at Albelda towards 881, and preserved in the Codex Vigilanus with a continuation to 976.

The Chronica Albeldensis states that this Fafila was a dux of Gallaecia who was killed by Wittiza.

The battle is usually dated to 718 or 719, between the governorships of al-Hurr and as-Sham, though some have dated it as late as 722 and the Chronica Albeldensia mis-dates it to the 740s.

The prophetic and millennialist visions of Beatus produced an enduring mark in the development of the Kingdom of Asturias: the Chronica Prophetica, which was composed circa 880 AD, predicted the final fall of the Emirate of Córdoba, and the conquest and redemption of the entire Iberian peninsula by king Alfonso III.

There are also myths about the Asturian monarchy that are rooted in Jewish and Christian traditions rather than pagan ones: the Chronica ad Sebastianum tells of an extraordinary event that happened when king Alfonso I died.

* Arnaldo, Bishop of Astorga, wrote an account of Alfonso VII's life and reign known as the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris.