FULCHER OF CHARTRES (ioJ9—c. 113o), French chronicler, was a priest who was present at the council of Cler mont in 1095, and accompanied Robert II., duke of Normandy, on the first crusade in 1096. He became chaplain to Baldwin, king of Jerusalem. His Historia Hierosolymitana or Gesta Fran corum Jerusalem expugnantium, one of the most trustworthy sources for the history of the first crusade, covers the period between the council of Clermont and 1127, and the author only details events which he himself had witnessed. It was used by William of Tyre. Fulcher died after 1127, probably at Jerusalem. He has been confused with Foucher of Mongervillier (d. 1171), abbot of St.-Pere-en-Vallee at Chartres, and also with another person of the same name who distinguished himself at the siege of Antioch in 1098.
The Historia, in an incomplete form, was first published by J. Bongars in the Gesta Dei per Francos (Hanover, 1611). The last edition is by H. Hagenmeyer (Heidelberg, 1913) . There is a French translation in t. xxiv. of Guizot's Collection des memoires relatifs a l'histoire de France (1823-35).
See H. von Sybel, Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges (Leipzig, 1881) ; and A. Molinier, Les Sources de l'histoire de France (1902) .