Adam of Bremen ( also: Adamus Bremensis ) was a German medieval chronicler.

While Tacitus called it Mare Suebicum after the Germanic people of the Suebi, the first to name it also as the Baltic Sea ( Mare Balticum ) was eleventh century German chronicler Adam of Bremen.

It also has been used to argue that perhaps, Ceawlin did not win the battle and that the chronicler chose not to record the outcome fully – a king does not usually come home " in anger " after taking " many towns and countless war-loot ".

The term often refers to a book written by a chronicler in the Middle Ages describing historical events in a country, or the lives of a nobleman or a clergyman, although it is also applied to a record of public events.

The 2nd century chronicler Hegesippus also left an account of the death of James, and while the details he provides diverge from those of Josephus, the two accounts share similar elements.

His recounting of the period was remarkable for the rise of what 19th century papal historians saw as a " pornocracy ", or " rule of the harlots ", a reversal of the natural order as they saw it, according to Liber pontificalis and a later chronicler who was also biased against Sergius III.

The chronicler also claimed that the duke secured the support of Emperor Henry IV and King Sweyn II of Denmark, but as Henry was still a minor and Sweyn was more likely to support Harold, who could then help Sweyn against the Norwegian king, these claims should be treated with caution.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

" He was also a history enthusiast, and in 1559 suggested to the tailor John Stow to become a chronicler ( as Stow recalled in 1604 ).

Eusebius is also said to have referred to Hefa as Caiaphas civitas, and Benjamin of Tudela, the 12th century Jewish traveller and chronicler, is said to have attributed the city's founding to Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest at the time of Jesus.

Gerald of Wales ( c. 1146 – c. 1223 ), also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times.

* The Siege of Limoges in 1370 on the Aquitaine area, after which the Black Prince was obliged to leave his post for his sickness and financial issues, but also because of the cruelty of the siege, which saw the massacre of some 3, 000 residents according to the chronicler Froissart.

Yet another contemporary chronicler, Pedro Mariño de Lobera, also wrote that Valdivia offered to evacuate the lands of the Mapuche but says he was shortly thereafter killed with a large club by a vengeful warrior named Pilmaiquen, who said that Valdivia could not be trusted to keep his word once freed.

The same name was also used by Florentines, such as the poet Fazio degli Uberti ( circa 1309 – 1367 ), the famous chronicler Giovanni Villani ( c. 1275 – 1348 ), and Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), who wrote that the Brenta River rises from the mountains of Carantania, a land in the Alps dividing Italy from Germany.

* The chronicler known as Florence of Worcester incorporated parts of Asser's Life into his chronicle, in the early 12th century ; again, he may have also used the Cotton manuscript.

Peter Langtoft, also known as Peter of Langtoft (; died 1305 ) was an English historian and chronicler who took his name from the small village of Langtoft in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

The medieval chronicler William of Poitiers also claimed that Stigand in 1052 agreed that William of Normandy, the future William the Conqueror, should succeed King Edward.

Boardman also asserts that much of the negative views held of Robert II find their origins in the writings of the French chronicler Jean Froissart who recorded that ' king had red bleared eyes, of the colour of sandalwood, which clearly showed that he was no valiant man, but one who would remain at home than march to the field '.

Regino Prumiensis ( also Reginon ; German Regino von Prüm, sometimes anglicized Regino of Prüm ; died 915 ) was a Benedictine abbot and medieval chronicler.

As a historian Van Meteren was special in that he was not merely a chronicler of the events of his time, but also a powerful and wealthy man who influenced those events.

The chronicler Theophanes the Confessor, on top of stating that he was completely unfit to become co-emperor also claimed that Staurakios was guilty of rape, a claim perhaps colored by his hostility to Nikephoros I.

According to the Italian chronicler of the Norman feats in the south, Amatus of Montecassino, Tancred was a morally upright man, who would not carry on a sinful relationship and being unable also to live out his life in perfect celibacy, he remarried.

Louis IX had also invited King Haakon IV of Norway to crusade, sending the English chronicler Matthew Paris as an ambassador, but again was unsuccessful.

Meanwhile, the humanist chronicler Gaspar Frutuoso, writing in the second volume of his work Saudades da Terra mentioned: " These islands, known as Selvagens, apparently were discovered by Castilians, have a Castilian owner, as also Madeira and Azores archipelagos ... which will belong to this glorious and powerful Catholic King, the greatest in the world ".

In 1584, the pastor and chronicler Balthasar Russow in his Chronica der Provinz Lyfflandt ( 1584 ) wrote of an established tradition of setting up a decorated spruce at the market square where the young men " went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame ".

In the 16th century, in the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, his chronicler Abu al-Fazl ibn Mubarak wrote in the famous Ain-i-Akbari:

The chronicler Richerus claims that Eadgifu wrote letters both to Edmund and to Otto I in which she requested support for her son.

Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism.

As the chronicler Fulcher of Chartres wrote around 1124,

This is supported by claims by a chronicler from the late 16th century, who wrote that Anne was twenty when she returned from France.

The chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote of Harold that he " was very tall and handsome, remarkable for his physical strength, his courage and eloquence, his ready jests and acts of valour.

The eighth century monk and chronicler the Venerable Bede wrote a history of the English church called Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; the history only covers events up to 731, but as one of the major sources for Anglo-Saxon history it provides important background information for Offa's reign.

A 16th century chronicler Guagnini wrote in his famous book Sarmatiae Europeae descriptio, that Rus ' was divided in three parts.

Roger of Wendover, a chronicler of the time, wrote:

The eleventh century chronicler Eadmer, who had known the Saxon cathedral as a boy, wrote that, in its arrangement, it resembled St Peter's in Rome, indicating that it was of basilican form, with an eastern apse.

The contemporary chronicler William of Poitiers wrote concerning him:

In 1188, Cambro-Norman chronicler Gerald of Wales wrote, " Ireland uses and delights in two instruments only, the harp namely, and the tympanum.

The king had no option but to return to captivity — the English chronicler Henry Knighton wrote of the event: < div style = " font-size: 90 %;">< span style =" color :# eee ;"></ span > ... the Scots refused to have their King unless he entirely renounced the influence of the English, and similarly refused to submit themselves to them.

Of Guildford, the chronicler Grafton wrote ten years later: " even those that never before the time of his execution saw him, did with lamentable tears bewail his death ".

Around the same time, 13th century chronicler Matthew Paris wrote of the monks of St Albans Abbey " according to their custom, lived upon pasties of flesh-meat ".

Continuing the work of Froissart, Monstrelet wrote a Chronique, which extends to two books and covers the period between 1400 and 1444, when, according to another chronicler, Mathieu d ' Escouchy, he ceased to write.

As the chronicler Ibn al-Athir wrote of the man the Arabs came to respect and fear as " al-Markis ": " He was a devil incarnate in his ability to govern and defend a town, and a man of extraordinary courage ".

Muppet chronicler Christopher Finch wrote that Gold was " the most versatile female puppeteer to work on The Muppet Show the only British member of the cast.

Orderic Vitalis ( Ordericus ) ( 1075 – c. 1142 ) was an English chronicler who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th and 12th century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England.

The most famous chronicler of true crime trials in English history is the amateur criminologist William Roughead, a Scots lawyer who between 1889 and 1949 attended every murder trial of significance held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, and wrote of them in essays published first in such journals as The Juridical Review and subsequently collected in best-selling books with such titles as Malice Domestic, The Evil That Men Do, What Is Your Verdict ?, In Queer Street, Rogues Walk Here, Knave's Looking Glass, Mainly Murder, Murder and More Murder, Nothing But Murder, and many more ….

Saint Hegesippus ( Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος ) ( c. 110 — c. April 7, 180 AD ), was a Christian chronicler of the early Church who may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.