Geoffrey of Villehardouin

Geoffrey of Villehardouin (c. 1150 – c. 1213^[1]) was a French knight and historian who participated in and chronicled the Fourth Crusade. He is considered one of the most important historians of the time period,^[2] best known for writing the eyewitness account De la Conquête de Constantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople), about the battle for Constantinople between the Christians of the West and the Christians of the East on 13 April 1204. The Conquest is the earliest French historical prose narrative that has survived to modern times. Ηis full title was: "Geoffroi of Villehardouin, Marshal of Champagne and of Romania".

This article is about the historian. For the princes of Achaia, see Geoffrey I of Villehardouin and Geoffrey II of Villehardouin.

Chronicle of the Morea

Henry of Valenciennes

(1911). "Villehardouin, Geoffroy de" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 78–79. This article focuses on a critical review of De la Conquête de Constantinople.

Saintsbury, George

Chronicles of the Crusades (Villehardouin and ), translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw (Penguin). ISBN 0-14-044124-7

Jean de Joinville

Colin Morris, "Geoffroy de Villehardouin and the Conquest of Constantinople", History 53 (February 1968): 24-34

(1974). Historians in the Middle Ages. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-684-14121-3.

Beryl Smalley

Cristian Bratu, « Je, auteur de ce livre »: L’affirmation de soi chez les historiens, de l’Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Âge. Later Medieval Europe Series (vol. 20). Leiden: Brill, 2019 ( 978-90-04-39807-8).

ISBN

Cristian Bratu, “Je, aucteur de ce livre: Authorial Persona and Authority in French Medieval Histories and Chronicles.” In Authorities in the Middle Ages. Influence, Legitimacy and Power in Medieval Society. Sini Kangas, Mia Korpiola, and Tuija Ainonen, eds. (Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2013): 183–204.

Cristian Bratu, “Clerc, Chevalier, Aucteur: The Authorial Personae of French Medieval Historians from the 12th to the 15th centuries.” In Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles. Juliana Dresvina and Nicholas Sparks, eds. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012): 231–259.

translated by T. Marzial (1908), at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook website

Villehardouin's chronicle

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Geoffrey of Villehardouin

at Internet Archive