'''Lambert of Ardres''' (active 1194–1203) was a chronicler in the twelfth-century Kingdom of France, from on the frontiers of the County of Flanders.<ref name=NBW>Cyriel Moeyaert, "Aarde (Ardres), Lambert van (Lambertus Ardensis)", ''Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek'', vol. 16 (2002), 1-3.</ref>
By 1194, Lambert was the parish priest of Ardres. He was related to the Counts of Guînes, for whom he wrote a ''Historia comitum Ghisnensium'', begun around 1196 and left unfinished in 1203.<ref name=NBW/> It is a mixture of history and folklore. It also contains a contemporary description of a donjon. A chapter of Georges Duby's ''The Knight, The Lady, and the Priest'' is dedicated to Lambert's ''Historia''.<ref name=NBW/>
Lambert's ''Historia'' has been published in a number of editions: * Godfrey de Ménilglaise (ed.), ''Chronique de Guines et d'Ardres par Lambert, curé d'Ardres'' (Paris, 1855).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k36194g|title=Chronique de Guines et d'Ardre par Lambert, curé d'Ardre|website=Gallica|year=1855|publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France}}</ref> * Johannes Heller (ed.), "Lamberti ardensis historia comitum Ghisnensium", in ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', Scriptores, vol. 24 (1879), 550–642.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_24/index.htm#page/550/mode/1up|website=dmgh.de|title=Lamberti ardensis historia comitum Ghisnensium|publisher=Monumenta Germaniae Historica}}</ref> * Leah Shopkow (trans.), ''The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
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==External links== *{{Cite web|url=http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/ardres.html|title=Fortifying a Town|publisher=McMaster University Scriptorium|website=www.mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911001937/http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/ardres.html|archive-date=2007-09-11}}
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