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Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu (c. 760 – 18 February 814) [1] 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.
Angilbert was a Frankish poet and prelate at the court of Charlemagne. Of noble parentage, he was educated at the palace school at Aachen under Alcuin and was closely connected with the court and the imperial family.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
In this gathering Angilbert was known as ‘Homer’ for his skill in poetry. In early manhood Angilbert is said to have narrowly escaped hostile Vikings on the river Somme, to have prayed for deliverance at the shrine of St Riquier, and to have separated from his fiancée Bertha, Charlemagne's daughter, by whom he had two children.
Angilbert, Count of Ponthieu was a noble Frankish poet who was educated under Alcuin and served Charlemagne as a secretary, diplomat, and son-in-law. He is vene... English
Saint Angilbert (ăng´gĬlbərt), d. 814, Frankish statesman and courtier under Charlemagne, abbot of Centula (now Saint-Riquier), near Amiens. He was highly regarded in the Carolingian revival as a writer of Latin poetry.
Carolingian poet and courtier, abbot; b. c. 750; d. Feb. 18, 814. He was an official in the court of charlemagne for more than 20 years. He was a figure in the carolingian renaissance, a student of alcuin in the palace school, the head of the court chapel, and tutor of the young Pepin.
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Angilbert was the Homer of the emperor's literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III.
