FLODARD OF REIMS. - Historian, b. in 894, d. 28 March 966. He was a student at the archiepiscopal school of Reims, then deacon of the Cathedral and archivist. During the conflict between the archbishops Hugh of Vermandois and Artald, he defended the latter, with whom he attended the Synod of Ingelheim (948). Under Leo VII (936–39) he visited Rome. In 951 he was elected bishop by the people of Noyon, but the election was annulled by King Louis IV. It is uncertain whether in his old age he became a monk.
His principal work is the Annales, covering the years 919 to 966, an important source for the history of France, Italy, and Germany. Editions in MGH, Scriptores, III, pp. 363–408, and more recently Ph. Lauer, Les Annales de Flodard, Paris 1905, with a good introduction. He also composed a Historia Remensis Ecclesiae, up to 948, especially valuable for the documents it contains; the edition is in MGH, Scriptores, XIII, pp. 405–599. Three of his long poems are collected in PL 135, 491–299.