Henri de Valenciennes was a 13th-century French historian and chronicler (Hainaut County) who came to Constantinople with the Fourth Crusade. It belonged to the clergy, was possibly notary and is the fundamental source to know the events that took place in the Contantinopla occupied by the Latins especially in the period of May of 1208 to July of 1209. In addition I continue the histories of Godfrey of Villehardouin. / p>
His best known work is Histoire de l'empereur Henri de Constantinople (in Spanish History of the Emperor Henry of Constantinople). Here he narrates the vicissitudes of the reign of Henry of Flanders (1206-1216), who ascended the throne at the death of Baldwin I, who died in Veliko Tarnovo after being captured in Adrianople in 1205 fighting against a Byzantine-Bulgarian alliance.
Henri de Valenciennes is a source of first order to study the events that occurred between May 1208 and July 1209 such as: Bibliography
- Henri de Valenciennes. History of the Emperor Henry of Constantinople, LONGNON, Jean. Paris, Geuthner, 1948. (Documents relating to the history Crusades, II.), Edited by the Academy of the Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres II,
- KARAGIANNOPOULOS, I., WEISS, G., GÜNTER, E. Source of the history of Byzantium (324-1453). Second half-tape. Harrassowitz, 1982
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