Annals of Metz

Annales Mettenses
Also known asAnnales Mettenses posteriores
Annales Mettenses priores
Annales Francorum Mettenses
Author(s)Unknown
Ascribed toGisela, Abbess of Chelles, Unknown
LanguageLatin
Date687 to 830
ProvenanceFrancia
GenreChronicle
SubjectHistory of the Carolingian family from Pippin of Herstal (687) until Louis the Pious (830)

The Annals of Metz (Latin: Annales Mettenses) are a set of Latin Carolingian annals covering the period of Frankish history from the victory of Pepin II in the Battle of Tertry (687) to the time of writing (c. 806).[1][2] Sections covering events after 806 are not original writings but were borrowed from other texts and appended to the original annals in the 9th and 12th centuries.

The annals are strongly pro-Carolingian in tone, tracing the rise of the Carolingian dynasty from Pepin of Herstal through to Charlemagne and beyond; they are considered a family history of the Carolingian dynasty.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b McKitterick, Rosamond (2008). Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 36, 61. ISBN 978-0-521-71645-1.
  2. ^ Hen, Yitzhak (2000). "The Annals of Metz and the Merovingian past". Uses of the Past in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 175–6, 177.
  3. ^ Fouracre, Paul J. (2005). "The Long Shadow of the Merovingians". Charlemagne: Empire and Society. Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 6–15. ISBN 978-0-7190-7089-1.