Angilbert

Angilbert (* 750, † February 18 814 in Saint- Riquier, Picardy ) chaplain, diplomat and poet at the court of Charlemagne. After his death, he was also known as a saint with the name Angilibert and Engelbert ( Memorial Day February 18 ). He came from the nobility and walked out of the school of the Frankish court out as a student of Alcuin. From Emperor Charles the Great as he was lay abbot of the Benedictine abbey Centula ( Saint- Riquier ) at Abbeville in Picardy in France today. He was repeatedly entrusted with diplomatic missions to the Pope.

Charlemagne 's daughter Bertha was his mistress, with whom he had two sons: Harnid and the historian Nithard. This writes Nithard himself in his historical work. ( Quote: " Qui ex eiusdem magni regis filia nomine Berchta, Hartnidum, fratrem meum, et me Nithardum genuit. " )

From Angilbert several Latin lyric poems have survived, and he is also in sections as a biographer of the Emperor.

Angilberts poems were published by Ernst Ludwig Dümmler in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae.