List of Belgian historians

This is a list of historians who worked in Belgium and its predecessor states.

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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Early-modern Belgium

• Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
• Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
• Joos de Damhouder (1507–1581)
• Marcus van Vaernewyck (1518–1569)
• Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572)
• Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589)
• Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
• Petrus Divaeus (1535–1581)
• 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)
• Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649)
• Antonius Sanderus (1586–1664), author of Flandria Illustrata (1641)
• Gaspar Gevartius (1593–1666)
• Charles de Visch (1596–1666)
• Martin Valvekens (1604–1682)

Kingdom of Belgium

Art historians

• Barbara Baert
• Elisabeth Dhanens
• Alphonse-Jules Wauters

Literary historians

• Rita Lejeune