The Chronica Albeldensis makes mention of two of these rebels in particular.

The Chronica Albeldensis praises Ramiro as Uirga iustitiae, that is, " the Rod of Justice ".

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.

* In his chronicle Chronica regum Romanorum, completed in 1459, Thomas Ebendorfer ( d. 1464 ) states that King Wenceslaus had drowned the confessor of his wife, indicated as Magister Jan, because he had stated that only the one who rules properly deserves the name of king and had refused to betray the seal of Confession.

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

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.

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

This work, undertaken in 1440 by desire of a neighbour, Sir David Stewart of Rosyth, was a continuation of the Chronica Gentis Scotorum of John of Fordun.

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 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.

Matthias Corvinus ' court historian Antonio Bonfini flattered his king by tracing the family's ancestry to the Roman gens Corvina, or Valeriana, while adding: " for this man was indeed born of a Romanian father and a Hungarian mother " A contemporary Hungarian historian Johannes de Thurocz, similarly flattering his king, wrote in the Chronicle of the Hungarians ( Chronica Hungarorum ) that the Hunyadi family was of Hunnic origin, even calling Matthias Corvinus the " Second Attila ".

As Arnold of Lübeck reports in his Chronica Slavorum, he was present at the meeting of Henry the Lion with Kilij-Arslan during the former's pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1172.

Yet, even as late as in the 1470s, the crusade legend was ignored in the Chronica regni Gothorum, a chronicle of the history of Sweden, written by Ericus Olai, the Canon of the Uppsala cathedral.

His Weltbuch, a supplement to his Chronica, was printed at Tübingen in 1534.

To emphasize the imperial greatness of Florentine history, Villani also asserted that the city was given a second founding when it was rebuilt by Charlemagne ( r. 800 – 814 as Holy Roman Emperor )— which was absent from the Chronica de origine civitatis.

According to the Chronica seu originale regum et principum Poloniae by Wincenty Kadłubek, Sambor I between 1177 and 1180 was appointed Duke of Pomerelia and successor of his father by the Polish High Duke Casimir II the Just.

The first book printed in Hungary was the Chronica Hungarorum.

It was continued by Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum.

The first book printed in Hungary was the Chronica Hungarorum.

The aforementioned Chronica naierensis contains an account generally, though not universally, regarded as a legend: that Sancho Garcés, an illegitimate son of García Sánchez III of Navarre, eloped with the daughter of García's wife, Stephanie ( probably by an earlier marriage ), who was the fiancée of the Castilian infante Sancho, and that he sought refuge at the court first of Zaragoza, then later of Aragon.

The Chronica de gestis consulum andegavorum attributed this assassination to Fulk and Bertrada, and praised the late count as " an admirable man, distinguished in justice, a cultivator or the whole of goodness, who was a terror to all his enemies.

Bruno dux, Chronica Sancti Pantaleonis, Cologne, about 1237

The principal and almost contemporary source for the career of Priscillian is the Gallic chronicler Sulpicius Severus, who characterized him ( Chronica II. 46 ) as noble and rich, a layman who had devoted his life to study, vain of his classical pagan education, already being looked on with misgivings ( see Gregory of Tours ).

One historic source on Slavic mythology mentioning this god is the 12th-century Chronica Slavorum, a work written by German priest Helmold which describes customs and beliefs of several Wendish and Polabian tribes who were still pagans.

In the Chronica, Otto reports a meeting he had with Bishop Hugh of Jabala, who told him of a Nestorian Christian king in the east named Prester John.

In the later half of the 12th century, the German priest Helmold described in his work Chronica Slavorum, beliefs and customs of several West Slavic tribes who were still polytheists at the time.

The Chronica also describes the long and great reign of King Vratislav, who was a strong ruler but brave and good man.

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.

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.

The golden bodies were rejected by the waves of the sea and corrupted the air, so that a great many people died ( Francesco Petrarch Chronica de le Vite de Pontefici et Imperadori Romani ).

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.

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.

Chronica gentis Scotorum, edited by W. F. Skene.

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.

For the Monumenta Germaniae historica he edited the Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, the Gesta Hammenburgensis ecclesiae pontificum of Adam of Bremen and the Chronica Slavorum of Helmold, with its continuation by Arnold of Lübeck.

* The Chronica were first edited by Siegmund Schorkel ( Frankfort am Main, 1556 ).

However, the name of Belobog is not mentioned by Helmold anywhere in his Chronica, nor is it ever mentioned in any of the historic sources that describe the gods of any Slavic tribe or nation.

Matthias Corvinus as depicted in Chronica Hungarorum by Johannes de Thurocz

Another very valuable document is the Chronica Slavorum written in the late 12th century by Helmold, a German priest.

The first of these is his Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus ( Chronicle or history of the two cities ), a historical and philosophical work in eight books, which follows to some extent the lines laid down by Augustine and Orosius.

Władysław Wygnaniec, Chronica Polonorum by Maciej Miechowita, 1519

However, the name of Belobog is not mentioned by Helmold anyhere in his Chronica, nor is it ever mentioned in any of the historic sources that describe the gods of any Slavic tribe or nation.