Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronicle

Author:

Marius of Avenches

Period covered:

455-581

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

Marius continues Prosper Tiro, but the chronicle survives as a continuation of the Gallic chronicle of 452. Favrod (1990) identifies various geographically and chronologically distinct sources in Marius.

Edition - Translation:

T. Mommsen (1894) Chronica minora saec. IV.V.VI.VII. Volume Two (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Auctores antiquissimi, 11). Berlin: 227-239.
A. Murray (2000) (tr.) From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A reader. Peterborough: 101-108.
J. Favrod (1993) La Chronique de Marius d'Avenches (455-581) (Cahiers Lausannois d'histoire médiévale, 4). Lausanne.

Fragments:

Users:

Sources:

Prosper of Aquitaine
Anonymous (Consularia Italica)

Bibliography:

W. Arndt (1875) Bischof Marius, sein Leben, seine Chronik. Leipzig.
J. Favrod (1990) 'Les sources et la chronologie de Marius d'Avenches'. Francia 17: 1-20.