It exists today in three versions, all based on an archetype produced probably at Saint Peter's Abbey in Ghent shortly after the death of Count Baldwin V in 1067.
The complete, 337-word text with variants was edited by Ludwig Bethmann and published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica (Scriptores, IX, 305–7).
It was published under the title Genealogia comitum Flandriae Bertiniana because Bethmann mistakenly believed it to originate in the Abbey of Saint-Bertin.
It also circulated in northern Germany, where a Middle Low German translation was included in some manuscripts of the Sächsische Weltchronik, and it was known at the monasteries of Notre-Dame-du-Bec in Normandy and Cîteaux in Burgundy.
[1] The Genealogia is the earliest source for the so-called "Foresters of Flanders" (Forestiers de Flandre), the legendary three foresters—Liederik of Harelbeke, Ingelram and Audacer—who were the first counts of Flanders and the progenitors of the later counts.