Absalon first appears in Saxo Grammaticus's contemporary chronicle Gesta Danorum at the end of the civil war, at the brokering of the peace agreement between Sweyn III and Valdemar at St. Alban's Priory, Odense.

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.

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ).

All versions of the speech except that by Fulcher of Chartres were probably influenced by the chronicle account of the First Crusade called the Gesta Francorum ( dated c. 1102 ), which includes a version of it.

* 1070 – William I of England commissioned the Norman monk William of Jumièges to extend the Gesta Normannorum Ducum chronicle.

The most important is the chronicle called Gesta consulum Andegavorum, of which only a poor edition exists ( Chroniques des comtes d ' Anjou, published by Marchegay and Salmon, with an introduction by E. Mabille, Paris, 1856 – 1871, collection of the Société de l ' histoire de France ).

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.

The kings from Saxo Grammaticus chronicle Gesta Danorum ( deeds of the Danes ).

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 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 chronicle was written probably between 1196 and 1203, though some scholars claim that its author wrote the Gesta earlier in the 12th century.

On the other hand, the Gesta Ungarorum is the earliest surviving chronicle of Hungary, which was written at some point after 1196.

Although the version given by the unknown author of this chronicle is in sharp contrast with that of Simon of Kéza and other chronicles, it would be a mistake to treat the Gesta as a forgery, for nothing indicates that its author had any reason to forge anything.

As the Itinerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, a chronicle of the Third Crusade, records it:

* An abbreviation for the monk William of Jumièges ' chronicle Gesta Normannorum Ducum

He wanted to re-publish the huge 300-year-old chronicle of Denmark, Gesta Danorum, written by Saxo Grammaticus, but he did not know the location of the original manuscript.

One view is that the anonymous notary of the Hungarian king Béla III ( 1172 – 1196 ) wrote in the Gesta Ungarorum, based on ancient chronicles and oral tradition, that the Magyars, when they settled on the plains of the Tisza and Danube rivers, found there “ Slavs, Bulgarians and Vlachs, and the shepherds of the Romans ” Although the Gesta Ungarorum is in sharp contrast with the chronicle of Simon of Kéza and of other 14th century chronicles, it is a mistake to treat Gelou as a purely fictional character whose name derived from that of the Transylvanian town Gilău ( Gyalu in Hungarian ) Moreover, it would make no sense for the author of the Gesta to invent entire populations or to lie about the situation.

The so-called Gesta Francorum (" The Deeds of the Franks ") or in full Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum (" The deeds of the Franks and the other pilgrims to Jerusalem ") is a Latin chronicle of the First Crusade written in circa 1100-1101 by an anonymous author connected with Bohemond I of Antioch.

The Chronicon Pictum ( or Vienna Illuminated Chronicle, also referred to as Chronica Hungarorum, Chronicon ( Hungariae ) Pictum, Chronica Picta or Chronica de Gestis Hungarorum ) is a medieval illustrated chronicle from the Kingdom of Hungary from the fourteenth century.

A popular chronicle partly based on the Chronicon Pictum ( entitled just Chronica Hungarorum ) was circulated in a printed form.

The third chronicle entitled Chronica Hungarorum, partly based on the Chronicon Pictum, was produced by Johannes de Thurocz Hungarian: Thuróczy János, c. 1435-90, ed.

lived in the 12th century ( his true identity is unknown, but he was a notary of Béla III of Hungary ), who wrote the chronicle Gesta Hungarorum ( Deeds of the Hungarians ).

Shakespeare's primary source for Henry V, as for most of his chronicle histories, was Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles ; the publication of the second edition in 1587 provides a terminus ad quem for the play.

Shakespeare's primary source for Richard II, as for most of his chronicle histories, was Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles ; the publication of the second edition in 1587 provides a terminus post quem for the play.

Hydatius or Idacius ( c. 400 – c. 469 ), bishop of Aquae Flaviae in the Roman province of Gallaecia ( almost certainly the modern Chaves, Portugal, in the modern district of Vila Real ) was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century.

Rajmala, a chronicle of Tripuri kings that was first penned in the fifteenth century, provides a list of 186 kings from antiquity to the present day.

Hålogaland's rather close vicinity to Kvenland is also demonstrated in c. 1157 AD in the geographical chronicle Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan by the Icelandic Abbot Níkulás Bergsson ( Nikolaos ), who provides descriptions of lands around Norway:

He had the help of a scribe who made occasional edits of his own, and thus the chronicle provides invaluable viewpoints of a knight who was not a high level leader or cleric.

Hydatius was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of Hispania in the 5th century.

The Archive provides more than 1000 firsthand stories and 1, 500 original artifacts ( photos, letters and memorabilia ) that chronicle 85 years of Canada's military heritage.

" He summarized that the book is " a worthwhile read for its chronicle of an important part of the free software movement, as well as its insight into Stallman as a person.

It entailed the recruitment of clerical scholars from Mercia, Wales and abroad to enhance the tenor of the court and of the episcopacy ; the establishment of a court school to educate his own children, the sons of his nobles, and intellectually promising boys of lesser birth ; an attempt to require literacy in those who held offices of authority ; a series of translations into the vernacular of Latin works the king deemed " most necessary for all men to know "; the compilation of a chronicle detailing the rise of Alfred's kingdom and house ; and the issuance of a law code that presented the West Saxons as a new people of Israel and their king as a just and divinely inspired law-giver.

The first recorded use of the term Bretwalda comes from a West Saxon chronicle of the late 9th century that applied the term to Ecgberht, who ruled from 802 to 839.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

John of Worcester's chronicle suggests that Æthelstan faced opposition from Constantine, from Owain of Strathclyde, and from the Welsh kings.

Generally a chronicle (, from Greek, from, chronos, " time ") is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line.

In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American culture chronicle Vanity Fair.

Sacking of Suzdal by Batu Khan in February 1238: a Miniature ( illuminated manuscript ) | miniature from the 16th-century chronicle

Also, according to Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, The Painted Bird was Kosiński's most successful attempt at profiteering from the Holocaust by maintaining an aura of a chronicle.

The homage is then a separate issue, since, according to the chronicle of Thietmar, Mieszko actually paid tribute to the Emperor from the lands usque in Vurta fluvium ( up to the Warta River ).

The oldest Vamshavali or chronicle, the Gopalarajavamsavali, was copied from older manuscripts during the late 14th century, is a fairly reliable basis for Nepal's ancient history.

The history of this pologround is contained in the royal chronicle " Cheitharol Kumbaba " starting from AD 33.

Richard I being anointed during his coronation in Westminster Abbey, from a 13th-century chronicle

According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāli language, the ancient period of Sri Lanka begins in 543 BC with the landing of Vijaya, a semi-legendary king sailed 860 nautical miles on eight ships to Sri Lanka with 700 followers from the southwest coast of what is now the Rarh region of West Bengal.

According to the genesis chronicle of the majority Sinhala people, the Mahavamsa (" Great Chronicle "), written in 5th century CE, the Pulindas believed to refer to Veddas are descended from Prince Vijaya ( 6th-5th century BC ), the founding father of the Sinhalese nation, through Kuveni, a woman of the indigenous Yakkha clan whom he had espoused.

Tamar's chronicle praises her universal protection of Christianity and her support of churches and monasteries from Egypt to Bulgaria and Cyprus.

The prose Brut chronicle was an Anglo-Norman work, covering British and English monarchs from Brut ( Brutus of Troy ) to the death of Henry III in 1272.

The prose Brut chronicle was an Anglo-Norman work, covering British and English monarchs from Brut ( Brutus of Troy ) to the death of Henry III in 1272.

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.