Fredegar

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Fredegar (d. ca. 660), was a historian best known for hist Chronicle of Fredegar, a major source for Western European events of the 7th century. In the 7th century many institutions of the Middle Ages had their roots. Fredegar's chronicle is a universal history (world chronicle), beginning with the Creation. Fredegar reaches his own times in book iv, where historians' interest picks up, but merely provides a simple timeline, which ends in 642. Other hands, the "continuators," have extended the timeline into the 8th century. To judge from their systemic bias, they appear to have been working to please Childebrand, the half-brother of Charles Martel.

Further reading

• Collins, Roger, 1991. Early Medieval Europe 300-1000 (London: MacMillan)
• Wallace-Hadrill, J.M., translator, 1960. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations (Connecticut:Greenwood Press)
• —, 1967. The Barbarian West, 3rd edition (London: Hutchinson)