Helgaud
HELGAUD, or HELGALDUS (d. c. 1048), French chronicler, was a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. Little else is known about him save that he was chaplain to the French king, Robert II. the Pious, whose life he wrote. This Epitoma uitae Roberti regis, which is probably part of a history of the abbey of Fleury, deals rather with the private than with the public life of the king, and its value is not great either from the literary or from the historical point of view. The only existing manuscript is in the Vatican, and the Epitoma has been printed by J. P. Migne in the Patrologia Lalina, tome cxli. (Paris, 1844); and by M. Bouquet in the Recueil des historiens des Gaules, tome x. (Paris, 1760).
See Histoire lilteraire de la France, tome vii. (Paris, 1865-1869) ; and A. Molinier, Les Sources de I'histoire de France, tome ii. (Paris, 1902)
Note - this article incorporates content from Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, (1910-1911)
