History writers of the Middle Ages

Maybe you know the history, but do you know the historians ? Sure, some of them might not be called that by today's standards, and most are obscure today for the general public, so this might be a difficult quiz if you're not a total medieval nerd. That said, I hope you enjoy it and will want to learn more about these characters !

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Bishop who wrote a 12-books history of the Franks (6th c.)	Gregory of Tours
"Respected" first historian of the Anglo-saxons (7th c.)	The Venerable Bede
Spaniard known for his "Etymologies" and a history of the Visigothic kings (7th c.)	Isidore of Seville
Welsh cleric and biographer of Alfred the Great of Wessex (9th c.)	Asser
Norman chaplain and biographer of William the Conqueror, witnessed the batte of Hastings (11th c.)	William of Poitiers
Daughter of the emperor Alexios, she wrote about the crusades from the Greek point of view (12th c.)	Anna Comnena
Although it was mostly hogwash, his history of the Breton kingdom kickstarted the Arthurian legend (12th c.)	Geoffrey of Monmouth
Syrian noble who befriended crusaders and wrote vivid memoirs (12th c.)	Usama ibn Munqidh
Historian of the kingdom of Jerusalem who discovered king Baldwin's leprosy (12th c.)	William of Tyre

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Knight from Champagne who wrote an eyewitness account of the siege of Constantinople (13th c.)	Geoffrey of Villehardouin
An english monk with a french city's name who loved drawing (13th c.)	Matthew Paris
Dominican encyclopedist whose "Mirror" was the most famous historical work of his time (13th c.)	Vincent of Beauvais
French lord, close friend and biographer of Saint Louis (13th c.)	Jean de Joinville
King of Castile who commissioned the first general history of Spain (13th c.)	Alfonso X the Wise
Hundred Years War's most famous chronicler, a Frenchman on the English side (14th c.)	Jean Froissart
Author of "The Brus", the first major work in Scots language (14th c.)	John Barbour
Tunisian who theorized the growth and fall of empires, also met Timur the Lame AND survived (14th c.)	Ibn Khaldun
Italian humanist, pioneered the scientific method and revealed that the donation of the Papal states by Constantine was fake (15th c.)	Lorenzo Valla