ABSTRACT
Two short chronicles, which were copied and compiled by Symeon himself, are extant evidence of his attempts to cross-reference the histories of Francia and England in the period before the Norman Conquest. Very little of the information in either of these short compilations adds anything new to our knowledge of Frankish or Anglo-Saxon history, and neither contains any direct reference to the type of contacts between Pippin and Eadberht which Symeon described in his Libellus. For the earliest decades of the conversion in the late sixth and earlier seventh centuries, as Bede's sources grow more distant from his own time, we can turn to various continental sources which, in passing, mention England and the attitude of the Franks to their northern neighbours. Also important was that the leader of the Austrasian faction which sought to restore Dagobert to his throne was none other than Pippin II, Charlemagne's great grandfather.
