Léopold Genicot (Forville, Namur, 18 March 1914 - Ottignies, Louvain-la-Neuve, 11 May 1995) was a Belgian historian and medievalist and an activist for the Walloon Movement.
[1] He established a centre for the study of rural history and an influential series of guides to medieval historical sources.
By publishing three to four titles a year, the series has steadily grown to seventy-eight volumes, covering everything in medieval studies and culture, from necrological documents to Latin treatises on the virtues and the vices, from astronomy to arms, from armour to other daily hardware.
As a politician, in 1995, by the time of his demise, his patriotic views had become gradually more regionalistic, favouring either an independent Wallonia or its integration into France.
In 1976 he was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and in 1982 he received an honorary degree from the Catholic University of Lublin.