The usual starting point for an examination of his career is the notice of his death in the final entry for the year 1118 in the Chronicon: On 7 July, the Worcester monk Florence died.
[2][4][5] However, it is now recognised that the work as it survives today was authored by John, a fellow monk at Worcester,[2] whose signature is found in two later entries (1128 and 1138).
First, there is no stylistic break in the Chronicon after Florence's death, which gives the impression that a single author was responsible for the entire work.
One possibility if ultimately unverifiable is that Florence's contribution lay in assembling the source materials which John consulted for the entries covering the period between the ninth and eleventh century.
[2] Florence is also the first monk to be commemorated in a so-called titulus for Worcester, preserved on a mortuary roll belonging to Vitalis (d. 1122), abbot of Savigny.