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Also Known As	Aegidius
Born	February 5, 1505 • Glarus • Switzerland
Died	February 28, 1572 (aged 67) • Glarus • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Chronicon Helveticum”
Subjects Of Study	history of Switzerland

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Fernão Lopes

Portuguese historian

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Theophylactus Simocattes

Byzantine historian

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Johannes Stumpf

Swiss theologian

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Heinrich Harrer

explorer and writer

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

English politician and author

Livy

Livy

Roman historian

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Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala

Inca nobleman, author, and illustrator

Robida illustration

Albert Robida

French illustrator

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Geoffrey Of Monmouth

English bishop and chronicler

Joinville, Jean, sire de: Histoire de Saint-Louis

Jean, sire de Joinville

French author

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Robert Mannyng

English poet

Pasquier, Étienne

Étienne Pasquier

French author and lawyer

William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Camden

British historian

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Saint Nicephorus I

Greek Orthodox patriarch

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Palladius

Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler

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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos

Byzantine historian

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George Pachymeres

Byzantine scholar

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Liutprand of Cremona

Lombard bishop

Damião de Góis

Damião de Góis

Portuguese humanist

Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.

Jean Froissart

French poet and historian