Walter of Guisborough[1] was a canon regular of the Augustinian Gisborough Priory, Yorkshire and English chronicler of the 14th century.
The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, also previously and mistakenly known as the Chronicle of Walter of Hemingford or Hemingburgh,[2] covers the period of English history from the Conquest (1066) to the 19th year of Edward III, excepting the years 1316–1326.
It ends with the title of a chapter in which it was proposed to describe the Battle of Crécy (1346), but the chronicler seems to have died before the required information reached him.
[3] In compiling the first part, he apparently used the histories of Eadmer, Roger of Hoveden, Henry of Huntingdon, and William of Newburgh; but the reigns of the three Edwards are original, composed from personal observation and information.
The first portion was again published in 1848 by the English Historical Society, under the title Chronicon Walteri de Hemingburgh, vulgo Hemingford nuncupati, de gestis regum Angliae, edited by Hans Claude Hamilton.