Florence of Worcester

Monk and chronicler. He wrote Chronicon ex chronicis which supplements and extends the Chronicon written by Marianus Scotus, and is a valuable source for Anglo-Saxon history.

Florence of Worcester (died July 7, 1118) was a 12th century English chronicler.

Beyond the date of his death, recorded by the man who continued his work, nothing is known of Florence's life. The basis of his work was a chronicle compiled by Marianus Scotus, an Irish recluse, who lived first at Fulda, and later at Mainz. Marianus, who began his work after 1069, carried it up to 1082. Florence supplemented Marianus from a lost version of the English Chronicle, and from the writings of Asser, Bishop of Sherborne.

Either Florence or a later editor of his work borrowed considerably from the first four books of Eadmer's Historia novorum. Florence's work is continued, up to 1141, by a certain John of Worcester, who wrote in about 1150.