Abstract: This article presents an overview of the different commentaries to the Prophetie Merlini composed around 1135. Around forty commentaries written between the 12th and 15th centuries have been transmitted to us. The ambiguous language of Prophetie Merlini enabled their contemporary interpreters to link particular prophecies to the major events of the Anglo-Norman period and to criticize the politics of the succesive kings, e.g., the introduction of new taxes under Henry I, the death of his only legitimate son in the shipwreck of the White Ship, or the conquest of Wales by Edward I.
