The
Livonian Chronicle of Henry or
Henry's chronicle of Livonia is a document in
Latin describing historic events in
Livonia (roughly corresponding to today's inland
Estonia and north of
Latvia) and surrounding areas from 1180 to 1227. It was written by a priest
Henry of Latvia . Apart from the few references in the
Primary Chronicle compiled in
Kievan Rus' in the twelfth century, it is the oldest known written document about the history of these countries. For many episodes in the early stages of the
Christianization of the peoples of the eastern Baltic, the Chronicle of Henry is the major surviving evidence aside from the
Livonian Rhymed Chronicle and the
Novgorod First Chronicle.