RIGORD (c. 1150-c. 1209)  , French chronicler, was probably born near Alais in Languedoc, and became a physician . After-wards becoming a monk he entered the monastery of Argenteuil, and then that of St Denis, and described himself as regis Francorum chronographus . Rigor wrote the Gesta Philippi Augusti, dealing with the life of the French king, Philip Augustus, from his coronation in 1179 until 1206 . The work, which is very valuable, was abridged and continued by William the Breton (q.v.) . The earlier part of the Gesta speaks of the king in very laudatory terms, but in the latter part it is much less flattering in its tone . It is published in tome xvii. of Dom Bouquet's Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France (Paris, 1738–1876); and with introduction by H . F . Delaborde (Paris, 1882–85) . A French translation of the Gesta is in tome xi. of Guizot's Collection des memoires relatifs d l'histoire de France (Paris, 1825) . Rigord also wrote a short chronicle of the kings of France . See A . Potthast, Bibliotheca historica (Berlin, 1896) ; and A .

Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France, tome iii . (Paris, 1903) .