ADHEMAR DE CHABANNES (c. 988-c. 1030)  , medieval historian, was born about 988 at Chabannes, a village in the French department of Haute-Vienne . Educated at the monastery of St Martial at Limoges, he passed his life as a monk, either at this place or at the monastery of St Cybard at Angouleme . He died about 1030, most probably at Jerusalem, whither he had gone on a pilgrimage . Adhemar's life was mainly spent in writing and transcribing chronicles, and his principal work is a history entitled Chronicon Aquitanicum et Francicum or Historia Francorum . This is in three books and deals with Frankish history from the fabulous reign of Pharamond, king of the Franks, to A.D . 1028 . The two earlier books are scarcely more than a copy of the Gesta regum Francorum, but the third book, which deals with the period from 814 to Io28, is of considerable historical importance . This is published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Scriptores . Band iv . (Hanover and Berlin, 1826-1892) . He also wrote Commemoratio abbatum Lemovicensium basilicae S .

Martialis apostoli (848—1029) and Epistola ad Jordanum Lemovicensem episcopum et alios de apostolatu S . 3fartialis, both of which are published by J . P . Migne in the Patrologia Latina, tome cxli . (Paris, 1844—1855) . See F . Arbellot, Etude historique et litteraire sur Ademar de Chabannes (Limoges, 1873) ; J . F . E . Castaigne, Dissertation sur le lieu de naissance et sur la famille du chroniqueur Ademar, moine de l'abbaye de St Cybard d'Angouleeeme (Angouleme, 1850) .