The Chronica or Cronaca Gallica of 511, also called the Gallic Chronicle of 511, is a chronicle of Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

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 preserved today in a single manuscript of the thirteenth century now in Madrid

Madrid

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. It resembles in all its traits another late antique Gallic chronicle, the Chronica Gallica of 452

Chronica Gallica of 452

The Chronica Gallica of 452, also called the Gallic Chronicle of 452, is a chronicle of Late Antiquity, presented in the form of annals, which continues that of Jerome...

, of which it may be a continuation.

Like the chronicle of 452, it was written in the south of Gaul, possible at Arles

Arles

Arles is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence....

 or Marseille

Marseille

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. The sources of its author include the earlier chronicle, the chronicle of Sulpicius Severus

Sulpicius Severus

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, that of Hydatius

Hydatius

Hydatius or Idacius , bishop of Aquae Flaviae in the Roman province of Gallaecia was the author of a chronicle of his own times that provides us with our best evidence for the history of the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th century.-Life:Hydatius was born around the year 400 in the...

, that of Orosius, and the imperial consul

Consul

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ar records. It was added to a compilation of texts in Spain in 733.

The chronicle covers the period from 379 to 509/511, from which derives its name. Its entries are short and pointed, but only (approximately) datable by the rare reference to the regnal year of an emperor and by the (assumed) chronological ordering of events. Among the events for which there is no other extant source is the defeat and death of Anthemiolus

Anthemiolus

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around 471.

Sources

• Burgess, R. "The Gallic Chronicle of 511: A New Critical Edition with a Brief Introduction." Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources. edd. R. W. Mathisen and D. Shantzer. Aldershot, 2001. pp 85–100.