The original of the eleventh-century Chronicle of Nantes, kept in Latin in the city of Nantes, has not survived, but there exist a late fifteenth-century French translation of much of it, made by a certain Pierre le Baud, who inserted it in two histories of Brittany he wrote, as well as Latin excerpts, which have been inserted into other chronicles. The editor of the Chronicle, René Merlet[1] assembled twenty additional scattered chapters he collected from other sources; he presented reasons for dating the Chronicle of Nantes to the 1050s, and detected the presence of charters from the cathedral archives of Tours and Nantes, and annals and narratives in the unknown author's[2] source materials.[3]
The Chronicle of Nantes covered the period 570 to about 1049.
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