Angilbert

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Angilbert (* around 750 ; † February 18, 814 in Saint-Riquier , Picardy ) was court chaplain, diplomat and poet at the court of Emperor Charlemagne , where he was named Homer . After his death he was also known as a saint by the names Angilibert and Engelbert ( Memorial Day February 18). He came from the nobility and emerged as a pupil of Alcuins from the school of the Frankish court. By Emperor Charlemagne, he was the lay abbot the Benedictine Centula (Saint-Riquier) at Abbeville in Picardy in today's France . The construction of the monastery church with a westwork from the end of the 8th century was probably under his direction. He was entrusted several times with diplomatic missions to the Pope .

Emperor Karl's daughter Bertha was his lover, with whom he had two sons: Hartnid and the historian Nithard . Nithard himself writes this in his historical work:

"Qui ex eiusdem magni regis filia nomine Berchta, Hartnidum, fratrem meum, et me Nithardum genuit."

Several Latin lyric poems have survived by Angilbert, and he is also considered in sections to be the emperor's biographer.

Angilbert's poems were published by Ernst Ludwig Dümmler in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica .

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SURNAME Angilbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Angilibert, Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court chaplain, diplomat and poet
DATE OF BIRTH around 750
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 814
Place of death Riquier, Picardy
  1. ↑ Werner Müller / Gunther Vogel: dtv-Atlas zur Baukunst , Volume 2, 5th edition 1987, page 371