Lambert of Ardres

Lambert of Ardres (active 1194–1203) was a chronicler in the twelfth-century Kingdom of France, from on the frontiers of the County of Flanders.Cyriel Moeyaert, "Aarde (Ardres), Lambert van (Lambertus Ardensis)", Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek, vol. 16 (2002), 1-3.

By 1194, Lambert was the parish priest of Ardres. He was related to the Counts of Guînes, for whom he wrote a Historia comitum Ghisnensium, begun around 1196 and left unfinished in 1203. It is a mixture of history and folklore. It also contains a contemporary description of a donjon. A chapter of Georges Duby's The Knight, The Lady, and the Priest is dedicated to Lambert's Historia.

Lambert's Historia has been published in a number of editions:

• Godfrey de Ménilglaise (ed.), Chronique de Guines et d'Ardres par Lambert, curé d'Ardres (Paris, 1855).{{Cite book|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k36194g|title=Chronique de Guines et d'Ardre par Lambert, curé d'Ardre|website=Gallica|year=1855|publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France}}
• Johannes Heller (ed.), "Lamberti ardensis historia comitum Ghisnensium", in Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores, vol. 24 (1879), 550-642.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_24/index.htm#page/550/mode/1up|website=dmgh.de|title=Lamberti ardensis historia comitum Ghisnensium|publisher=Monumenta Germaniae Historica}}
• Leah Shopkow (trans.), The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)