From "The Catholic Encyclopedia", volume I, 1907, Robert AppletonCompany: "St. Angilbert, Abbot of Saint-Riquier, died 18 February, 814.Angilbert seems to have been brought up at the court of Charlemagne,where he was the pupil and friend of the great English scholar Alcuin.He was intended for the ecclesiastical state and must have received minororders early in life, but he accompanied the young King Pepin to Italy in782 in the capacity of primicerius palatii, a post which implied muchsecular administration. In the academy of men of letters which renderedCharlemagne's court illustrious Angilbert was known as Homer, andportions of his works, still extant, show that his skill inverse wasconsiderable. He was several times sent as envoy to the pope, and it ischarged against him that he identified himself with the somewhatheterodox views of Charlemagne in the controversy on images. In 790 hewas named Abbot of Centula, later known as Saint-Riquier, in Picardy, andby the help of his powerful friends he not only restored or rebuilt themonastery in a very sumptuous fashion, but endowed it with a preciouslibrary of 200 volumes. In the year 800 he had the honour of receivingCharlemagne as his guest. It seems probable that Angilbert at thisperiod (whether he was yet a priest is doubtful) was leading a veryworldly life. The circumstances are not clear, but modern historiansconsider that Angilbert undoubtedly had an intrigue with Charlemagne'sunmarried daughter Bertha, and became by her the father of two children,one of whom was the well-known chronicler Nithard. This intrigue ofAngilbert's, sometimes regarded as a marriage, has been disputed by somescholars, but is now generally admitted. We should probably do well toremember that the popular canonizations of that age were very informaland involved little investigation of past conduct or virtue. It is,however, stated by Angilbert's twelfth-century biographer that the abbotbefore his death did bitter penance for this "marriage", and thehistorian Nithard, in the same passage in which he claims Angilbert forhis father, also declares that Angilbert's body was found incorrupt someyears after his burial. Angilbert has been claimed as the author of afragment of an epic poem on Charlemagne and Leo III, but the authorshipis disputed. On the other hand, Monod believes that he is probablyresponsible for certain portions of the famous "Annales Laurisenses."
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