Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
FULCHERIO of CHARTRES. — Historian, born c. 1059 at Chartres, died in 1127 or 1128. Under Bishop Ivo, he entered the cathedral clergy of Chartres. He took part in the First Crusade in the retinue of Stephen of Blois, Robert of Flanders, and Robert of Normandy. In 1097 he was present at the battle of Dorylaeum and later became chaplain to Baldwin of Edessa, whom he followed to Jerusalem when Baldwin succeeded Godfrey of Bouillon in 1100, and with whom he was in all his expeditions until Baldwin’s death in 1118.
His Historia Hierosolymitana, in three books, survives, covering events up to 1127. It is one of the best sources for the First Crusade and the Kingdom of Jerusalem from 1095 to 1127.
BIBL.: Good edition by H. Hagemeyer, Heidelberg 1913, with exhaustive introduction. For more recent bibliography V. W. Wattenbach-W. Holtzmann, Geschichtquellen deutscher Kaiserzeit, I, IV, 1943, pp. 780-81. V. Hocquard
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“FULCHERIO DI CHARTRES.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), p. 1078. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/fulcherio-di-chartres.
