Adémar de Chabannes

Who was Adémar de Chabannes?

Adémar de Chabannes was an eleventh-century French monk, a historian, a musical composer and a successful literary forger.

Famous Quotes:

• As Rollo's death drew near, he went mad and had a hundred Christian prisoners beheaded in front of him in honour of the gods whom he had worshipped, and in the end distributed a hundred pounds of gold around the churches in honour of the true God in whose name he had accepted baptism.