The Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum ("Chronicle of the deeds of the consuls of Anjou"), or simply Gesta consulum Andegavorum, is a Latin history of the Ingelgerian dynasty of the county of Anjou written in the early 12th century, probably between 1106 and 1109, during the second reign of Count Fulk IV.[1]
The Chronica consists of a series of biographies beginning with the supposed founder of the dynasty, Tertullus, who is not mentioned in any earlier source.[3]
"Chronica de gestis consulum Andegavorum", in Paul Marchegay and André Salmon, eds., Chroniques d'Anjou, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2010 [1856]), pp. 34–157. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511731433.002
References
^ abN. L. Paul (2015), "Origo Consulum: Rumours of Murder, a Crisis of Lordship, and the Legendary Origins of the Counts of Anjou", French History, 29 (2): 139–160, doi:10.1093/fh/cru112.
^Karol Szejgiec (2018), "Creating the Past and Shaping Identity – Angevin Dynastic Legend ('Gesta consulum Andegavorum')", in A. Pleszczynski; J. A. Sobiesiak; M. Tomaszek; P. Tyszka (eds.), Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe, Brill, pp. 144–153, doi:10.1163/9789004363793.
Further reading
Bachrach, Bernard S. "Some Observations on the Origins of the Angevin Dynasty." Medieval Prosopography10.2 (1989): 1–24.
Bachrach, Bernard S. "Neo-Roman vs. Feudal: The Heuristic Value of a Construct for the Reign of Fulk Nerra, Count of the Angevins (987-1040)." Cithara30.1 (1990): 3–32.
Barton, Richard E. "Writing Power, Lordship, and History: The Gesta consulum Andegavorum's Account of the Battle of Alençon." Anglo-Norman Studies27 (2005): 32–51.