Mediaeval Hungarians continued this tradition ( see Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum, Chronicon Pictum, Gesta Hungarorum ).

* The Hungarian form Erdély was first mentioned in the 12th century Gesta Hungarorum as " Erdeuleu ".

The chronicle Gesta Hungarorum provides insight from the Hungarian side ; however this chronicle was written in only the 12th century.

The first mention of the city of Požega is found in the Gesta Hungarorum, by an anonymous notary of Bela III ( 1172 – 1196 ) where he mentions the conquest of three forts in Slavonia-as the area between rivers Danube and Sutla was then called: Zagreb, Vlco ( Vukovar ) and Posega.

( Simon Kézai, personal " court priest " of King László Kún, in his Gesta Hungarorum, 1282-85.

Before the Hungarian conquest, according to Gesta Hungarorum chronicle, a local Bulgarian ruler known as Glad ruled over Banat.

The Hungarian 12th century chronicle known as Gesta Hungarorum mention the castle of Vrscia in Banat, which belonged to Bulgarian duke Glad in the 9th century.

According to the 13th-century Gesta Hungarorum (" Deeds of the Hungarians "), at the time of the Hungarian invasion Transylvania was inhabited by Romanians and Slavs and ruled by Gelou, " a certain Romanian ", while Crişana was inhabited by several peoples, among them Székelys.

The Gesta Hungarorum names Zolta as the successor of his father, and also mentions that he married a daughter of Menumorut, the local military leader in the region of Bihar () at the time of the Hungarian conquest ().

Some historians believe the character recorded by Gesta Hungarorum as lord Marot and his grandson Menumorut, dux of Biharia, were of Kabar descent.

According to the medieval chronicle Gesta Hungarorum, one of the Magyar tribal chieftains, Ketel established his domain near the mouth of the Váh river, his son Alaptolma later built a castle there and named it Komárom.

The factual accuracy of the Gesta Hungarorum is often disputed and according to excavations, the present-day Komárno Castle was built only in the 12th century.

The Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum (" The Deeds of the Huns and Hungarians ") mentioned that the Árpáds descended from the gens ( clan ) Turul, and the Gesta Hungarorum (" The Deeds of the Hungarians ") recorded that the Árpáds ' totemic ancestor was a turul ( a large bird, probably a falcon ).

Mediaeval chroniclers also referred to a tradition that the Árpáds descended from Attila the Hun ( the anonymous author of the Gesta Hungarorum, for example, has Árpád say

Gesta Hungarorum

Among the first chronicles about Hungarian history were Gesta Hungarorum (" Deeds of the Hungarians ") by the unknown author usually called Anonymus, and Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum (" Deeds of the Huns and the Hungarians ") by Simon Kézai.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

William of Jumièges also mentions Rollo's prehistory in his Gesta Normannorum Ducum, but states that he was from the Danish town of Fakse.

He grasped, and mentions in the Gesta Guillelmi that the duty of a historian is to remain within the ‘ bounds of the truth .’

The scholia of Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum mentions that it was the Polish king Boleslaw who gave the princess hand in marriage.

* Gesta Cnutonis regis mentions in one short passage that Canute and his brother went to the land of the Slavs, and brought back their mother, who was living there.

The Gesta Hungarorum (" The Deeds of the Hungarians ") records that his father was Ügyek, while the Chronicon Pictum ( the " Vienna Illuminated Chronicle ") mentions his father as Előd ( the son of Ügyek ); his mother was Emese.

If the Chronicon Lethrense reports that the Swedes humiliated the Danes after Helghe's death, Saxo Grammaticus mentions nothing of this, but instead he has Helgo humiliate the Swedes in his Gesta Danorum, book 2.

The author of the Gesta mentions that he was the vassal of the emperor of Byzantium.

Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is unique in equating Cnut's mother ( for whom he also produces no name ) with the former queen of Sweden, wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage mother of Olof Skötkonung.

Her mother made her half-brothers Hamdir and Sörli exact revenge on her death, a story which is retold in Hamðismál and Guðrúnarhvöt, Bragi Boddason's Ragnarsdrápa, in the Völsunga saga and in Gesta Danorum.

He was also interested in history and culture, and commissioned Saxo Grammaticus to write Gesta Danorum, a comprehensive chronicle of the history of the Danes.

Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum was not finished until after the death of Absalon, but Absalon was one of the chief heroic figures of the chronicle, which was to be the main source of knowledge about early Danish history.

After its initial release in 1075 / 6, Gesta was complemented with supplementary Scholias until the death of Adam in the 1080s.

When exactly Gesta Danorum was written is the subject of numerous works ; however, it is generally agreed that Gesta Danorum was not finished before 1208.

With the help of printer Jodocus Badius, Gesta Danorum was refined and printed.

According to Paul the Deacon's 8th century work Historia Langobardorum, the Langobards migrated southward from Scandinavia led by Ibur and Aio, while Saxo Grammaticus records in his 12th-century work Gesta Danorum that this migration was prompted by Aggi and Ebbi.

Independently, the cardinal-nephew of Pope Adrian IV, Cardinal Boso intended to extend the Liber Pontificalis from where it left off with Stephen V, although his work was only published posthumously as the Gesta Romanorum Pontificum alongside the Liber Censuum of Pope Honorius III.

The Liber Pontificalis was first edited by J. Busæus under the title Anastasii bibliothecarii Vitæ seu Gesta.

Roger of Hoveden, in his Gesta Regis Ricardi, claimed that the rioting was started by the jealous and bigoted citizens, and that Richard punished the perpetrators, allowing a forcibly converted Jew to return to his native religion.

According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,

Boccaccio most likely was inspired, though, by the Gesta Romanorum.

As also mentioned by Kirby Page in Jesus or Christianity, Charles Loring Brace tells us in Gesta Christ that it was not until the 9th Century that the first recorded stand against slavery itself was taken by St. Theodore.

A biography of Conrad II in chronicle form, Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris, was written by his chaplain Wipo of Burgundy, and presented to Henry III in 1046, not long after the latter was crowned.

Succeeding sources include ( in chronological order ) William of Poitiers's Gesta Guillelmi ( written between 1071 and 1077 ), The Bayeux Tapestry ( created between 1070 and 1077 ), and the much later Chronicle of Battle Abbey, the chronicles written by William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, and Eadmer's Historia Novorum in Anglia embellishes the story further, with the final result being a William whose tactical genius was at a high level that he failed to display in any other battle.

The Latin text was printed for the first time in Basel in 1549 by Nicholas Brylinger ; it was also published in the Gesta Dei per Francos by Jacques Bongars in 1611 and the Recueil des historiens des croisades ( RHC ) by Auguste-Arthur Beugnot and Auguste Le Prévost in 1844, and Bongars ' text was reprinted in the Patrologia Latina by Jacques Paul Migne in 1855.