Earlier Annals of Metz

Annales Mettenses priores · Anonymous (Metz) · compiled c. 830; entries 688-830 · chronicle

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS 'Annales Mettenses priores' returns 9 records (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Annales%20Mettenses%20priores&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 Simson's MGH edition of 1905 and its reprints, the Brepols edition of 2025, and German and French studies. None is an English translation, and no English title appears in the catalogue under any spelling. The annals begin at 688 and, in Simson's edition, close at 830, which the dMGH page images confirm (the text breaks off at the 830/831 entries, https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_germ_10/index.htm). They are the classic statement of the Carolingian claim that the Pippinids saved the Franks from Merovingian uselessness, and are quoted in English only in fragments.

A programme piece written at Metz in the 830s that rewrites the seventh century so that the Pippinids appear as the natural rulers of the Franks; nearly every modern account of Carolingian legitimation depends on it. English readers meet it only through quotation, which hides how tendentious and how late the text actually is.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Source and licence
dmgh · PDF scan · public domain (MGH edition, 1905) mgh_ss_rer_germ_10

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Record	Citation
Late Merovingian France : history and hagiography, 640-720 · 1996 · eng	"Late Merovingian France : history and hagiography, 640-720." Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990066805090203941

Cite: Tergwame, “Earlier Annals of Metz” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-anonymus-annales-mettenses-priores