List of Belgian historians

This is a list of historians who worked in Belgium and its predecessor states and made contributions to the history of Belgium.

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
 * Lambert of Ardres (fl. 1194–1203), author of Historia comitum Ghisnensium
 * 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
 * Jean de Stavelot
 * Gilles li Muisis
 * Edmond de Dynter, author of Chronica ducum Lotharingiae et Brabantiae
 * Jean Mansel
 * Jean d'Enghien
 * Jean de Haynin
 * 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
 * Wein van Cotthem (c.1390–1457), author of two books of the Brabantsche yeesten
 * Petrus de Thimo (1393–1474), author of Brabantiae historia diplomatica
 * 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
 * Costen van Halmale (1432/37–1508), initial compiler of the Annales Antwerpienses

Early-modern Belgium

 * Filips Wielant (1440/1–1520), author of Recueil des Antiquités de Flandre
 * Remi du Puys (active 1511–1515)
 * Cornelius Grapheus (1482–1558)
 * Adrianus Barlandus (1486–1538)
 * Melchior Barlaeus (died 1540)
 * Jacobus Lessabaeus (died 1557)
 * Jacobus Meyerus (1491–1552)
 * Hubertus Thomas (c.1495–1555)
 * Joos de Damhouder (1507–1581)
 * Marcus van Vaernewyck (1518–1569), author of Van die beroerlicke tijden in die Nederlanden en voornamelick in Ghendt 1566-1568 and De historie van Belgis
 * Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519–1572)
 * Lodovico Guicciardini (1521–1589)
 * Joannes Molanus (1533–1585)
 * Petrus Divaeus (1535–1581)
 * Jacobus Marchantius (1537–1609), author of De rebus gestis à Flandriae comitibus (1557) and Flandria commentariorum (1596)
 * 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)
 * Michel Routart (c.1580–1653), author of Oculus historiae (1628)
 * Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649)
 * Antonius Sanderus (1586–1664), author of Flandria Illustrata (1641)
 * Valerius Andreas (1588–1655), author of Bibliotheca Belgica (1623) and Fasti academici (1635)
 * Gaspar Gevartius (1593–1666)
 * Olivier de Wree (1596–1652), author of Sigilla comitum Flandriae (1639) and Genealogia Comitum Flandriae (1642–1643)
 * Charles de Visch (1596–1666)
 * Martin Valvekens (1604–1682)

19th century

 * Sylvain Balau
 * Stanislas Bormans
 * Victor Coremans
 * Louis Prosper Gachard
 * Arthur Gaillard
 * Victor Gaillard
 * Théodore Juste
 * Godefroid Kurth
 * Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove
 * Philippe Kervyn de Volkaersbeke
 * Henri Lonchay
 * François Joseph Ferdinand Marchal, author of Histoire des Pays-Bas autrichiens (1841) and Histoire politique du règne de l'empereur Charles-Quint (1856)
 * Charles Moeller
 * Jean Moeller
 * P. F. X. de Ram
 * Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg
 * Edouard Van Even
 * Alphonse Wauters
 * G. Henry Wouters, author of Historiae ecclesiasticae compendium (3 vols., 1842–1843); Dissertationes in selecta historiae ecclesiasticae capita (4 vols., 1868–1872)

20th century

 * Stephanus Axters (Church history)
 * Ursmer Berlière (Church history)
 * Wim Blockmans (medievalist)
 * Wilfrid Brulez (economic history)
 * Patricia Carson (medievalist)
 * Alfred Cauchie (Church history)
 * Lucien Ceyssens (Church history)
 * Hilde De Ridder-Symoens (university history)
 * Arthur De Schrevel (Church history)
 * Marie de Villermont (women's history)
 * François-Louis Ganshof (medievalist)
 * Léopold Genicot (medievalist)
 * Léon-Ernest Halkin (Church history)
 * Karl Hanquet (medievalist)
 * Paul Harsin (early modernist)
 * Félix Magnette (18th and 19th centuries)
 * Jules Mees (historical geography)
 * Jos Monballyu
 * Édouard de Moreau (Church history)
 * Anne Morelli (history of migration)
 * Henri Pirenne (medievalist)
 * Walter Prevenier
 * Jan Roegiers (intellectual historian)
 * Félix Rousseau (medievalist)
 * Aloïs Simon (Church history)
 * Jean Stengers (colonial history)
 * Jacques Stiennon (medievalist)
 * Egied-Idesbald Strubbe
 * Charles Terlinden
 * Alfons Thijs (early modernist)
 * Raoul Van Caenegem (medievalist)
 * Leon van der Essen
 * Herman Van der Wee (economic historian)
 * Raymond van Uytven (medievalist)
 * Charles Verlinden (medievalist)
 * Léopold Willaert (Church history)
 * Lode Wils

21st century

 * Hans Cools (early-modern history)
 * Sophie De Schaepdrijver (20th-century history)
 * Dirk Imhof (book history)
 * Randall Lesaffer (legal history)
 * Brigitte Meijns (medievalist)

Art historians

 * Barbara Baert
 * Marthe Crick-Kuntziger
 * Dirk De Vos
 * Elisabeth Dhanens
 * Isabelle Errera
 * Hippolyte Fierens-Gevaert
 * Philippe Roberts-Jones
 * Adelbert Van de Walle
 * Katlijne Van der Stighelen
 * Jan Van der Stock
 * Alphonse-Jules Wauters

Literary historians

 * Rita Lejeune

Historians of philosophy

 * Maurice De Wulf
 * Adriaan Pattin
 * Isabelle Stengers