Gesta Normannorum Ducum

The Gesta Normannorum Ducum (Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans) is a chronicle that the monk Wilhelm von Jumièges wrote shortly before 1060.

Wilhelm von Jumièges' work is based on the historical work De moribus et actis primorum Normannorum ducum (About the manners and deeds of the first dukes of Normandy), which Dudo von Saint-Quentin wrote between 1015 and 1026. This work, commissioned by Duke Richard I († 996) and completed under his son, Duke Richard II († 1026), was taken up again in the 1050s by Wilhelm von Jumièges and worked through, shortened and with the addition of the reign the dukes Richard II., Richard III., Robert I († 1035) and Wilhelm II., later called William the Conqueror, updated.

In 1070 , William the Conqueror had the work expanded to underpin his claim to the English throne.

Later developed Orderic Vitalis († around 1142) and Robert of Torigni († 1186) sequels, up to King Henry I. rich.

expenditure

• Elisabeth MC Van Houts (ed. And transl.): The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1995.