Angilbert
Sign in to saveAngilbert, Count of Ponthieu ( – 18 February 814) was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law. He is venerated as a pre-Congregation saint and is still honored on the day of his death, 18 February.
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Angelbert was a Frankish soldier and poet, possibly from Aquitaine. His "Verses on the Battle that was Fought at Fontenoy" are a first-hand description of the Battle of Fontenoy of 25 June 841, in which he participated with the army of Lothair I. They are an important piece of battle literature from the twilight of the Carolingian Renaissance. Historian Bernard Bachrach has examined them as a source for the emotional effects of battle during the ninth century. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
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- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Angilbert
- Saint.death_date
- 18 February 814
- Saint.death_place
- Centule, Austrasia, Francia
- Saint.feast_day
- 18 February
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox Church
- Saint.titles
- Abbot of the Monastery of St RichariusCount of Ponthieu
- Saint.beatified_date
- Pre-Congregation
- Saint.canonized_date
- 1100
- Saint.canonized_by
- Pope Urban II
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Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu ( – 18 February 814) was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law. He is venerated as a pre-Congregation saint and is still honored on the day of his death, 18 February.
==Life== thumb|A page from the Psalter of Charlemagne, copied between 795 and 800, and probably given by Charlemagne to Angilbert when the king visited Saint-Riquier for Easter 800