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Higden, Ranulf

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Higden, Ranulf (died 1364)

English chronicler. He was a Benedictine monk at St Werburgh's monastery in Chester, England. His great work was a general history of the world from the Creation down to his own time, entitled Polychronicon. This was printed by William Caxton in 1482. It was edited, with a translation, in the Rolls Series (1865-86).


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