List of Belgian historians

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This is a list of historians who worked in Belgium and its predecessor states and made contributions to the history of Belgium.

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Medieval Belgium

Early-modern Belgium

Kingdom of Belgium

19th century

20th century

21st century

Art historians

Literary historians

Historians of philosophy

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chronicle</span> Historical account of facts and events

A chronicle is a historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a timeline. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler. A chronicle which traces world history is a universal chronicle. This is in contrast to a narrative or history, in which an author chooses events to interpret and analyze and excludes those the author does not consider important or relevant.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pharamond</span> A King of Franks

Pharamond, also spelled Faramund, is a legendary early king of the Franks, first referred to in the anonymous 8th-century Liber Historiae Francorum, which depicts him as the first king of the Franks.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sigebert of Gembloux</span> Medieval author

Sigebert of Gembloux was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pascal II. Early in his life he became a monk in the Benedictine abbey of Gembloux.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove</span>

Joseph-Marie-Bruno-Constantin, Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove was a Belgian historian and politician.

Herigerus was a Benedictine monk, often known as Heriger of Lobbes for serving as abbot of the abbey of Lobbes between 990 and 1007. Remembered for his writings as theologian and historian, Herigerus was a teacher to numerous scholars. His biography describes him as "skilled in the art of music", though no music theory treatise survives and neither do the two antiphons and one hymn attributed to him.

Alberic of Trois-Fontaines was a medieval Cistercian chronicler who wrote in Latin. He was a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey in the diocese of Châlons-sur-Marne. He died after 1252. He wrote a chronicle describing world events from the Creation to the year 1241.

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Count Lambert "the Bearded" was the first person to be described as a count of Leuven in a surviving contemporary record, being described this way relatively late in life, in 1003. He is also the patrilineal ancestor of all the future counts of Leuven and dukes of Brabant until his descendant John III, Duke of Brabant, who died in 1355.

Guillaume de Nangis, also known as William of Nangis, was a French chronicler.

Jean-Noël Paquot (1722–1803) was a Belgian theologian, historian, Hebrew scholar and bibliographer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp</span>

St Michael's Abbey in Antwerp was a Premonstratensian abbey founded in 1124 by Norbert of Xanten and laid waste during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1807 a semaphore station was installed in the tower of the church. The buildings were demolished in 1831.

<i>Brabantsche Yeesten</i> Rhymed chronicle

The Brabantsche Yeesten or Gestes de Brabant is a rhyming chronicle of some 46,000 verses written in the 14th and 15th centuries in the Middle Dutch language. It provides a history of the Duchy of Brabant, and the original five volumes were written by Jan van Boendale of Antwerp; his text was later extended to seven volumes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jean de Hocsem</span>

Jean de Hocsem or Jan van Hocsem, Latinized Johannes Hocsemius (1278–1348), was a canon and scholaster of Saint Lambert's Cathedral, Liège.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jan van Boendale</span> Flemish writer

Jan van Boendale, formerly sometimes known as Jan De Klerk was a 14th-century secretary of the city of Antwerp and author of narrative and didactic verse. Two of his works, Brabantsche yeesten and Der leken spieghel, are listed in the Canon of Dutch Literature compiled by the Digital Library for Dutch Literature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saint John I Agnus</span>

Saint John I Agnus was the 25th bishop of Tongres. He lived in the 7th century and is considered as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.

Joseph Jean De Smet (1794–1877) was a priest and historian who took part in the Belgian Revolution of 1830.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brunengeruz</span>

The county of Brunengeruz existed in the 10th and 11th centuries in what is now eastern Belgium, between the towns of Leuven, on the river Dyle and Tienen, on the river Gete, within the larger region known as the Hesbaye. The name is sometimes interpreted with "corrected" forms such as Brunenrode, because the Latin spellings are believed to derive from Brūninga roþa, a forest clearing belonging to the kinsfolk of Bruno.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wein van Cotthem</span>

Wein van Cotthem was a Brussels clerk, chaplain and chronicler.

Petrus de Thimo, Latinized name of Peter van der Heyden, was a Brabantine chronicler and a lawyer employed by the city of Brussels, of which he became Pensionary in 1423. He is considered one of the most important 15th-century chroniclers of the Duchy of Brabant.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emond de Dynter</span> Belgian diplomat (1370–1449)

Emond Ambrosii de Dynter was a descendant of the noble family Van Dinther, originating from the village of the same name Dinther in Brabant. From 1412 he was secretary to the Brussels chancery of four successive dukes of Brabant and of Burgundy, namely: Anton of Burgundy, John IV of Brabant, Philip of Saint-Pol and Philip the Good.

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