Walter The Chancellor Sources
Asbridge and Edgington (2019:9-10)
describe Walter the Chancellor 's sources as follows:
Hagenmeyer suggested that Walter drew on another Latin history, that written by Fulcher of Chartres, for the events of 1119.23 While it is possible that Walter did take a limited amount of information from Fulcher regarding events in the kingdom of Jerusalem, it seems unlikely that he would have needed to do so for the principality of Antioch. He was much closer to those events, and in fact Fulcher only dealt very briefly with the battle of the Field of Blood, expressing a reluctance ‘to relate all the wretched events which occurred in this year in the Antiochene region’.24 The accounts written by Albert of Aachen and Matthew of Edessa should, almost certainly, be viewed as independent from Walter.Asbridge and Edgington (2019:10) describe Walter the Chancellor 's dependants as follows:
William of Tyre certainly drew upon both Walter and Fulcher when writing about events in northern Syria between 1114 and 1119, copying many details directly from The Antiochene Wars. As we shall see, William also had a tendency to attempt to reconcile these two sources when they differed on points of detail or interpretation.25
It is not clear whether Orderic Vitalis drew any material from Walter. His account bears some marked similarities to The Antiochene Wars, particularly in its portrayal of Patriarch Bernard as a ‘prudent’ advisor and its references to specific individuals such as Robert of Vieux-Pont. Elsewhere it differs strongly, depicting Roger as ‘an arrogant prince’ who was ‘not the equal of his predecessors’.26