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HELGAUD, or HELGALDUS (d. c. 1048)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 220 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HELGAUD, or HELGALDUS (d. c. 1048)  , See also:French chronicler, was a See also:monk of the See also:Benedictine See also:abbey of See also:Fleury . Little else is known about him See also:save that he was See also:chaplain to the French See also:king, See also:Robert II. the Pious, whose See also:life he wrote . This Epitoma vitae Roberti regis, which is probably See also:part of a See also:history of the abbey of Fleury, deals rather with the private than with the public life of the king, and its value is not See also:great either from the See also:literary or from the See also:historical point of view . The only existing See also:manuscript is in the Vatican, and the Epitoma has been printed by J . P . See also:Migne in the Patrologia See also:Latina, tome cxli . (See also:Paris, 1844); and by M . Bouquet in the Recueil See also:des historiens des Gaules, tome x . (Paris, 1760) . See Histoire litteraire de la See also:France, tome vii . (Paris, 1865–1869) ; and A . See also:Molinier, See also:Les See also:Sources de l'histoire de France, tome, ii .

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