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

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