Chronicle of Aniane

The Chronicle of Aniane (or Annals of Aniane) is an anonymous Latin history covering the rise of the Carolingian family from 670 to 840. It was composed by a monk of the Abbey of Aniane (Hérault).

The Chronicle of Aniane is closely related to the Chronicle of Moissac and the two have not always been adequately distinguished. For the years 670–812, the two chronicles draw on the same sources, including a lost source from southern France. A gap in the Chronicle of Moissac for the years 716–770 makes the Chronicle of Aniane the only surviving text to preserve information from this lost source for those years.

The date of composition of the Chronicle of Aniane is unknown. It is found in a single manuscript copy from the early twelfth century, but may have been composed much earlier.