# 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
* Jan van Boendale (c.1280–c.1351), author of 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
* Gilles li Muisis
* Edmond de Dynter, author of Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae
* Jean Mansel
* Jean d'Enghien
* Jean de Haynin
* 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
* Wein van Cotthem (c.1390–1457), author of two books of the 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

## Early-modern Belgium

* Filips Wielant (1440/1–1520), author of Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre
* Remi du Puys (active 1511–1515)
* Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
* Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
* Melchior Barlaeus (died 1540)
* Jacobus Lessabaeus (died 1557)
* Jacobus Meyerus (1491–1552)
* Hubertus Thomas (c.1495–1555)
* 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)

## Kingdom of Belgium
### 19th century

* 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) and Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (1856)
* 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)

### 20th century

* Stephanus Axters (Church history)
* Ursmer Berlière (Church history)
* Wim Blockmans (medievalist)
* Wilfrid Brulez (economic history)
* Patricia Carson (medievalist)
* Alfred Cauchie (Church history)
* Lucien Ceyssens (Church history)
* Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (university history)
* Arthur De Schrevel (Church history)
* Marie de Villermont (women's history)
* François-Louis Ganshof (medievalist)
* Léopold Genicot (medievalist)
* Léon-Ernest Halkin (Church history)
* Karl Hanquet (medievalist)
* Paul Harsin (early modernist)
* Félix Magnette (18th and 19th centuries)
* Jules Mees (historical geography)
* Jos Monballyu
* Édouard de Moreau (Church history)
* Anne Morelli (history of migration)
* Henri Pirenne (medievalist)
* Walter Prevenier
* Jan Roegiers (intellectual historian)
* Félix Rousseau (medievalist)
* Aloïs Simon (Church history)
* Jean Stengers (colonial history)
* Jacques Stiennon (medievalist)
* Egied-Idesbald Strubbe
* Charles Terlinden
* Alfons Thijs (early modernist)
* Raoul Van Caenegem (medievalist)
* Leon van der Essen
* Herman Van der Wee (economic historian)
* Raymond van Uytven (medievalist)
* Charles Verlinden (medievalist)
* Léopold Willaert (Church history)
* Lode Wils

### 21st century

* Hans Cools (early-modern history)
* Sophie De Schaepdrijver (20th-century history)
* Dirk Imhof (book history)
* Randall Lesaffer (legal history)
* Brigitte Meijns (medievalist)

## Art historians

* Barbara Baert
* Marthe Crick-Kuntziger
* Dirk De Vos
* Elisabeth Dhanens
* Isabelle Errera
* Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert
* Philippe Roberts-Jones
* Adelbert Van de Walle
* Katlijne Van der Stighelen
* Jan Van der Stock
* Alphonse-Jules Wauters

## Literary historians

* Rita Lejeune

## Historians of philosophy

* Maurice De Wulf
* Adriaan Pattin
* Isabelle Stengers