The Annals of Essenbæk were written no earlier than 1323 (the year that the last notice in the annals relates to),Skov, p. 305 and no later than 1367, when Archbishop Nikles Jonsen (Bild) used them to write his Chronicle of the Archbishops of Lund.Marstrand, p. 254 The Annals of Essenbæk seem to be based on the Annals of Ryd and the Annals of Lund until about 1262, and the rest of them seem to be original.
