Chronicle of Fredegar in Four Books, with the Continuations
Chronicarum quae dicuntur Fredegarii libri IV cum continuationibus
· Fredegar (Pseudo-Fredegar)
· compiled c. 660; Book IV ends 642, continuations run to 768
· chronicle
Latin · domain: latin-historiography · researched 2026-11-14
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
HOLLIS 'Fredegar' returns 48 records and 'Chronicle of Fredegar English' returns 5 (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Fredegar&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 ; https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Chronicle%20of%20Fredegar%20English&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and exactly one of them is an English translation: J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations (Nelson, London 1960; Greenwood reprint 1981), whose title and catalogue note confine the rendering to Book IV and the continuations. No catalogue record translates Books I-III, the compilation of Jerome, Hydatius, Isidore and epitomes of Gregory of Tours that carries the narrative from the Creation to 584, nor is there a modern complete English version. The full Latin text is online at dMGH as Krusch's edition (SS rer. Merov. 2, https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_merov_2/index.htm), so the gap is one of English access alone.
The single most important narrative source for the Merovingian kingdoms after Gregory of Tours, and the only one that runs continuously from the Creation to the death of Dagobert I and on into the rise of the Carolingian mayors. In English a reader gets only the last book, so the whole chronographic frame that medieval readers actually used is invisible. The Liber Historiae Francorum, which travels in the same dMGH volume, is fully translated (Fouracre and Gerberding, Late Merovingian France, Manchester 1996), which throws the Fredegar gap into relief.
Buchberger, Erica, 1979-. "Shifting ethnic identities in Spain and Gaul, 500-700 : from Romans to Goths and Franks." Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990149322210203941
Harrison, Dick, 1966-. "The age of abbesses and queens : gender and political culture in early medieval Europe." Lund, Sweden : Nordic Academic Press, c1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990080177080203941
Reimitz, Helmut. "History, Frankish identity and the framing of Western ethnicity, 550-850." Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990145180610203941
Cite: Tergwame, “Chronicle of Fredegar in Four Books, with the Continuations”
(latin gap dossier), 2026.
https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-fredegar-chronicon