The question of who wrote this work has been much debated, although the historian J. M. Wallace-Hadrill admits that "Fredegar" is a genuine, if unusual, Frankish name.
Spørgsmålet om, hvem forfatteren er, har været genstand for akademisk debat, skønt historikeren J. M. Wallace-Hadrill indrømmer, at Fredegar er et tydeligt, om end usædvanlig frankisk navn.