List of Belgian historians

This is a list of historians who worked in Belgium and its predecessor states and made contributions to the history of Belgium.

Medieval Belgium

Heriger of Lobbes (c.925–1007), compiler of the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium to 667
Anselm of Liège (1008–c.1056), continuator of the Gesta Episcoporum Leodiensium from 667 to 1048
Sigebert of Gembloux (c.1030–1112), author of Chronicon sive Chronographia and Gesta abbatum Gemblacensium
Anselm of Gembloux (died 1136), continuator of Sigebert of Gembloux's Chronicon
Renier of St Laurent (died 1188), author of Triumphale Bulonicum on the siege of Bouillon Castle, 1141
Lambert of Ardres (fl. 1194–1203), author of Historia comitum Ghisnensium
Giles of Orval, continuator of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium from 1048 to 1247
Jacob van Maerlant (1230/40–1288/99), author of a world chronicle, the Spiegel Historiael
Jan van Heelu (13th century), author of a Rymkronyk of the 1288 Battle of Worringen
Jean de Hocsem (1278–1348), continuator of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium from 1247 to 1347
Brabantsche yeesten and Van den derden Eduwaert (an account of the 1340 Siege of Tournai
)

Jacques de Guyse (1334−1399), author of Annales Historiae Illustrium Principum Hannoniae (Annals of Hainaut)
Jean d'Outremeuse (1338–1400), author of La Geste de Liége and Ly Myreur des Histors
Jean de Stavelot^[1]
Gilles li Muisis^[1]
Edmond de Dynter, author of Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae^[1]
Jean Mansel^[1]
Jean d'Enghien^[1]
Jean de Haynin^[1]
Jacques de Hemricourt (1333–1403), author of the Miroir des nobles de Hesbaye
Guillaume de Vottem (died 1403), author of a chronicle of Liège
Jean Froissart (c.1337–c.1405), author of a chronicle of the opening decades of the Hundred Years' War
Brabantsche yeesten
Petrus de Thimo (1393–1474), author of Brabantiae historia diplomatica
Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1400–1453), author of a chronicle of the later decades of the Hundred Years' War
Georges Chastellain (died 1475), author of a chronicle of the period 1417–1474
Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), memoirist and chronicler of the Burgundian Netherlands
Jean Molinet (1435–1507), author of La complainte de Grece
Costen van Halmale (1432/37–1508), initial compiler of the Annales Antwerpienses

Filips Wielant (1440/1–1520), author of Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre
Remi du Puys (active 1511–1515)^[1]
Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
Melchior Barlaeus (died 1540)^[1]
Jacobus Lessabaeus (died 1557)^[1]
Jacobus Meyerus (1491–1552)^[1]
Hubertus Thomas (c.1495–1555)^[1]
Joos de Damhouder (1507–1581)
Marcus van Vaernewyck (1518–1569), author of Van die beroerlicke tijden in die Nederlanden en voornamelick in Ghendt 1566-1568 and De historie van Belgis
Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572)
Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589)
Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
Petrus Divaeus (1535–1581)
Jacobus Marchantius (1537–1609), author of De rebus gestis à Flandriae comitibus (1557) and Flandria commentariorum (1596)
Justus Lipsius (1547–1606)
Floris Van der Haer (1547–1634)
Guillaume Gazet (1554–1612)
Franciscus Haraeus (1555?–1631)
Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627)
Ferry de Locre (1571–1614)
Aubertus Miraeus
(1573–1640)
Erycius Puteanus (1574–1646)
Jean-Baptiste Gramaye (1579–1635)
Michel Routart (c.1580–1653), author of Oculus historiae (1628)
Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649)
Antonius Sanderus (1586–1664), author of Flandria Illustrata
(1641)

Valerius Andreas (1588–1655), author of Bibliotheca Belgica (1623) and Fasti academici (1635)
Gaspar Gevartius (1593–1666)
Olivier de Wree (1596–1652), author of Sigilla comitum Flandriae (1639) and Genealogia Comitum Flandriae (1642–1643)
Charles de Visch
(1596–1666)
Martin Valvekens (1604–1682)

Sylvain Balau
Stanislas Bormans
Victor Coremans
Louis Prosper Gachard
Arthur Gaillard
Victor Gaillard
Théodore Juste
Godefroid Kurth
Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove
Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke
Henri Lonchay
François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, author of Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1841)^[2] and Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (1856)^[3]
Charles Moeller
Jean Moeller
P. F. X. de Ram
Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg
Edouard Van Even
Alphonse Wauters
G. Henry Wouters, author of Historiae ecclesiasticae compendium (3 vols., 1842–1843); Dissertationes in selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita (4 vols., 1868–1872)