Bon
Boullogne, dit Boullogne l’aîné (1649-1717), Angilbert
recevant l'habit des mains de saint Symphorien, Abbatiale de Saint-Riquier
Saint Angilbert
Confesseur et
abbé (+ 814)
Conseiller très cultivé de l'empereur Charlemagne, il était chargé du gouvernement civil de toute la contrée entre l'Escaut et la Seine. Il revêtit l'habit monastique dans l'abbaye de Saint Riquier qui connut une grande prospérité sous son abbatiat.
Au monastère de Centule dans le Ponthieu, en 814, saint Angilbert, abbé. Après
avoir quitté ses charges au palais de Charlemagne et à l'armée, il se retira
dans la vie monastique, avec le consentement de son épouse, qui elle-même prit
le voile des femmes consacrées, et il dirigea avec succès l'abbaye de Centule.
Martyrologe romain
Also
known as
Angilbert of
Saint-Riquier
Angilberto…
Enghelberto…
Homer…
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Raised at the court of Charlemagne,
and became his friend and confidante. Studied under Alcuin.
Nicknamed “Homer” because of his Latin poetry. Married to Charlemagne‘s
daughter Bertha. With her permission he turned to religious
life when prayers for
a successful resistance to a Danish invasion
were answered and a storm scattered the Danish fleet;
Bertha became a nun. Benedictine monk. Court chaplain,
privy councilor, and diplomat.
As a reward for his help in court, Charlemagne gave
Angilbert the abbey of
Saint Riquier in Centula where he served as abbot.
He established a library at
Centula, and introduced continuous chanting in
the abbey using
300 monks and
100 boys in
relays. Executor of the emperor’s will.
Born
c.740
18
February 814 of
natural causes
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ANGILBERT (Saint) Abbot.
(February 18) (9th century) A Frankish nobleman, married to a daughter of
Charlemagne, and a distinguished and successful defender of his country against
the marauding Norsemen. Both he and his wife elected to end their days in
religion. Saint Angilbert died, Abbot of the monastery of Saint Riquier, A.D.
813.
MLA
Citation
Monks of Ramsgate.
“Angilbert”. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 July 2012.
Web. 17 February 2024.
<http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-angilbert/>
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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 (Michel Huglo, "The Cantatorium, from
Charlemagne to the Fourteenth Century", in Peter Jeffery (ed.), The
Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West (Boydell Press,
2001), pp. 89–104, at 89–92).
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 minor orders early
in life, but he accompanied the young King Pepin to Italy in 782 in the
capacity of primicerius
palatii, a post which implied much secular administration. In the academy
of men of letters which rendered Charlemagne's court
illustrious Angilbert was known as Homer, and portions of his works, still
extant, show that his skill inverse was considerable. He was several times sent
as envoy to the pope,
and it is charged against him that he identified himself with the somewhat
heterodox views of Charlemagne in
the controversy on images. In 790 he was named Abbot of Centula,
later known as Saint-Riquier, in Picardy, and by the help of his powerful friends
he not only restored or rebuilt the monastery in a very
sumptuous fashion, but endowed it with a precious library of 200
volumes. In the year 800 he had the honour of
receiving Charlemagne as
his guest. It seems probable that Angilbert at this period (whether he was yet
a priest is doubtful) was leading a
very worldly life. The circumstances are not clear, but modern historians
consider that Angilbert undoubtedly had an intrigue with Charlemagne's unmarried
daughter Bertha,
and became by her the father of two children, one of whom was the well-known
chronicler Nithard. This intrigue of Angilbert's, sometimes regarded as a
marriage, has been disputed by some scholars, but is now generally admitted. We
should probably do well to remember that the popular canonizations of that age
were very informal and involved little investigation of past conduct or virtue. It is, however,
stated by Angilbert's twelfth-century biographer that the abbot before his
death did bitter penance for this "marriage", and the historian
Nithard, in the same passage in which he claims Angilbert for his father, also declares
that Angilbert's body was found incorrupt some years after his burial.
Angilbert has been claimed as the author of a fragment of an epic poem on Charlemagne and Leo III, but the
authorship is disputed. On the other hand, Monod believes that he is probably
responsible for certain portions of the famous "Annales Laurisenses."
Thurston,
Herbert. "St. Angilbert." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01490b.htm>.
Transcription. This
article was transcribed for New Advent by Michael C. Tinkler.
Ecclesiastical
approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2023 by Kevin Knight.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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ANGILBERT, ST.
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. He fathered two sons out of
wedlock, Nithard and Harnid, by Charles's daughter Bertha. Between 792 and 796,
he took part in three embassies to Rome, taking the libri carolini to Adrian I
in 794. He was present at Charlemagne's coronation in 800. In 811, he was one
of the witnesses to Charlemagne's will. In 781, he was appointed lay abbot of
Saint-Riquier (Centula ). Sometime between 796 and 802, he retired to his
abbey to live an austere life. As abbot, he was an able administrator and
builder. He wrote two treatises about his monastic work. He greatly increased
the library holdings and introduced the uninterrupted recital of the Hours,
the laus perennis, for his 300 monks. His poems have no exceptional
literary merit but they do give interesting insight into life at Charlemagne's
court. St. Angilbert's cult began at Saint-Riquier in the twelfth century.
Feast: Feb. 18.
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F. Lot (Paris 1894). S. A. Rabe, Faith,
Art, and Politics at Saint-Riquier: The Symbolic Vision of Angilbert (Philadelphia
1995). W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands
Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter, ed. W. Levison and H. Löwe (Weimar 1952–63)
2 235–241. R. Aigrain, Catholicisme 1:559–560.
A. Butler, The Lives of the Saints,
ed. H. Thurston and D. Attwater (New
York 1956) 1:371. Bibliotheca
sanctorum (Rome 1961–) 1:1249–50. M. Manitius, Geschichte der lateinische Literatur des
Mittelalters (Munich 1911–31) 1:543–547. P. Richard, Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie
ecclésiastiques, ed. A. Baudrillart et al. (Paris 1912) 3:120–123.
[V. Gellhaus]
New
Catholic Encyclopedia
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L'église abbatiale
de Saint-Riquier, Diocèse d'Amiens, Picardie.
St. Angilbert
Feastday: February 18
Death: 814
Benedictine abbot and
advisor to Charlemagne. He was raised in the court of Emperor Charlemagne, and
studied under the great English scholar, Alcuin. Receiving minor orders,
Angilbert accompanied King Pepin to Italy in
782. Returning to the court, he became known as "Homer" because of
his literary and language skills. He also served as an envoy of the court to
the pope. In 790, Angilbert was named the abbot of
Saint-Riquier in Picardy, France. Angilbert either rebuilt or restored
the abbey and
endowed it with two hundred books. In the year 800, Charlemagne came
to visit him. Angilbert also fathered two children, having had an affair with
Bertha, Charlemagne's daughter. Angilbert did penance for
this relationship, and Bertha entered
a convent. Nithard, a noted historian of the era and Angilbert's son, wrote of
the penance's and austerities undertaken. Angilbert died on February 18, 814.
Some years after his burial, his body was found to be incorrupt.
SOURCE : https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=1410
Saints
of the Day – Angilbert of Centula, Abbot
Article
Died 814. Nicknamed “Homer”
because of his Latin verses, he was raised at the court of Charlemagne and
studied under Alcuin. He married Charlemagne’s daughter, Bertha (some scholars
believe it was an affair rather than a marriage), but turned to religious life
when prayers for a successful resistance to a Danish invasion were answered
when a storm scattered the Danish fleet.
Bertha entered a convent
and he became a monk, excelled as a minister, and filled several important
offices. As a reward Charlemagne gave Angilbert the abbey of Saint Riquier
(Centula) and Angilbert became a model abbot. He established a library at
Centula and also introduced continuous chanting in the abbey, using his three
hundred monks and 100 boys in relays to do so. He was a close friend and
confidante of Charlemagne, was his court chaplain and privy councilor,
undertook several diplomatic missions for the emperor, and was one of the
executors of the emperor’s will (Benedictines, Delaney, Encyclopedia).
MLA
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Katherine I
Rabenstein. Saints of the Day, 1998. CatholicSaints.Info.
22 May 2020. Web. 17 February 2024.
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Angilbert, St
a noble Frank, first
councillor of the Italian King Pepin and of Charlemagne. He is said to have
been married to Bertha, the daughter of Charlemagne, but to have retired in
790, with the consent of his wife, to the convent of Centule (now St. Riquier).
In 794 he became abbot of this convent, and died Feb. 18, 814. He is the author
of a history of the abbey of Centule and of several poetical works, and was
surnamed the Homer of his times. See Acta Sanctorum, Feb. 18;
Ceillier, Auteurs sacres, vol. 18.
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Saints
of the Order of Saint Benedict – Saint Angilbert, Abbot
Nature was generous of
her choicest gifts to Saint Angilbert, one of the foremost nobles of his time
in France. Tall and graceful in person, handsome in countenance, and expert in
every manly exercise, he was no less remarkable for the accomplishments of his
mind, which had been trained by careful study. No wonder such gifts won the
favour of King Pepin, who did not rest till he secured for his court so
brilliant an ornament. Angilberts learning and modest disposition obtained for
him the charge of the King’s Chapel. (He had previously taken Minor Orders.)
After he was ordained Priest, Charlemagne, King Pepin’s successor, appointed
him Chaplain-in-chief to the Palace.
As Angilberts early training
had fitted him equally for the duties of war and peace, to him was confided the
defence of the coast of France, then ravaged by the incursions of the Danes.
His vigorous measures were successful in driving off the barbarians. In the
province under his charge was the Monastery of Centula, in Picardy, France,
famous for the relics of Saint Bercharius. Thither the governor made many a
visit, and the peace and holiness that reigned within the monastic precincts
made him doubt whether his present life was the one most conducive to his
salvation. His doubts were soon solved by the Almighty; for the governor, being
seized by a dangerous illness, which all the skill of the physicians failed to
cure, vowed that, if he recovered, he would embrace the monastic life. The Evil
One, however, was determined to place every obstacle in his way. No sooner was
he restored to health than the fierce hordes from the North again swarmed into
the province. How at such a time could he desert the post entrusted to him; how
fulfill his vow? In his difficulty the governor implored the help of Saint
Bercharius, promising, if the Saint would aid him against the Danes, that he
would immediately join the Community at Centula. In the battle that followed,
those of the enemy who escaped the sword of Angilbert were struck by
thunderbolts, hurled against them from every quarter of the heavens, so that
not even one was left to take home the news of their annihilation.
Immediately after this
victory Angilbert entered Centula, and by a life of the greatest rigour and
mortification gained such a reputation for sanctity that, when the Abbot,
Symphorianus, died, the monks would have none but him for their head. As soon
as the new Abbot was installed, he turned his attention both to the religious
and material improvement of his house. No relaxation of the Rule of Saint
Benedict was permitted, and one of the most stringent of his regulations was
that there never should be any interruption in singing the praises of God in
choir. To provide a worthy temple for the worship of the Almighty was his next
care. A magnificent church arose, whose arches rested on columns of Parian
marble. The last pillar – and that the most beautifully carved – was being
lifted to its proper position, when, through the carelessness of one of the
workmen, the fastenings gave way, and it was dashed to pieces on the ground.
Saint Angilbert, in despair, sought aid from Heaven. After having fasted for
three days, he spent the third night in prayer in the church. As he prayed, an
angel descended through the dome and restored the pillar to its place so
perfectly, that no trace of its injuries was visible.
Saint Angilbert died A.D.
814. Twenty-eight years after his death his remains were disinterred by his
successor, Gervinus. When the coffin was opened, the Saint’s body was found in
a state of perfect preservation.
– text and illustration
taken from Saints
of the Order of Saint Benedict by Father Aegedius
Ranbeck, O.S.B.
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Châsse de
saint Angilbert à l'abbatiale de Saint-Riquier.
Sant' Angilberto di
Centula Abate di Saint-Riquier
750 - Saint-Riquier,
Francia, 18 febbraio 814
Fu un importante
personaggio della corte di Carlo Magno. Inizialmente un cortigiano mondano, si
innamorò della figlia dell'imperatore, Berta, e da lei ebbe due figli. Carlo,
pur non approvando la relazione, concesse ad Angilberto l'abbazia di
Saint-Riquier, in commenda. Angilberto, colpito da una grave malattia, fece
voto di abbracciare la vita religiosa se fosse guarito. Guarito, si ritirò a
Saint-Riquier, dove fu eletto abate. Da abate, condusse l'abbazia a una nuova
fioritura, erigendo tre nuove chiese e ottenendo dal papa il rinnovo dei
privilegi dell'abbazia e l'esenzione dalla giurisdizione episcopale di Amiens.
Angilberto fu anche un importante ambasciatore di Carlo Magno presso il papa,
in particolare per la questione dell'iconoclastia. Nel 800, in occasione
dell'incoronazione di Carlo a imperatore, Angilberto fu uno dei quattro
testimoni del testamento dell'imperatore. Angilberto morì a Saint-Riquier il 18
febbraio 814, a soli 64 anni.
Martirologio
Romano: Nel monastero di Centule nel territorio di Amiens in Francia,
sant’Angilberto, abate, che, abbandonati gli incarichi di palazzo e militari,
con il consenso della moglie Berta, che prese lei pure il sacro velo, si ritirò
a vita monastica e resse felicemente il cenobio di Centule.
Sant'Angilberto, nato verso il 750, fu un importante personaggio della corte di Carlo Magno. Educato alla corte, divenne amico, confidente, consigliere e segretario dell'imperatore.
Nel 781, quando il piccolo Pipino fu incoronato re d'Italia, Angilberto ne divenne l'addetto, con il titolo di primicerio di palazzo. In seguito, fu nominato conte di Ponthieu e abate laico di Saint-Riquier.
Nonostante la tonsura, Angilberto condusse una vita dissoluta e si innamorò della principessa Berta, figlia di Carlo Magno. I due ebbero due figli, Armida e Nitardo. Carlo Magno, che non era un modello di moralità, non permise ai due amanti di sposarsi, ma concesse ad Angilberto la commenda dell'abbazia di Saint-Riquier.
Dopo una grave malattia e una vittoria sui danesi, Angilberto decise di abbracciare la vita religiosa. Divenne sacerdote e poi abate di Saint-Riquier.
Nel 792, Angilberto condusse a Roma il vescovo di Urgel, Felice, condannato per eresia. Nel 794, sottopose al giudizio del papa i "Libri Carolingi", che ribadivano la condanna all'iconoclastia. Nel 796, consegnò al papa parte dei tesori conquistati dall'esercito franco.
Dopo l'ultima missione a Roma, Angilberto si ritirò nella sua abbazia, dove si dedicò alla vita religiosa e alla ricostruzione dell'edificio.
Nel 800, Angilberto seguì Carlo Magno a Roma per l'incoronazione a imperatore.
Angilberto morì il 18 febbraio 814, ventidue giorni dopo la morte di Carlo
Magno. Fu sepolto davanti alla porta principale della basilica conventuale di
Saint-Riquier.
Nel 1100, papa Pasquale II lo canonizzò.
Autore: Franco
Dieghi
Sant’Angilberto nacque verso il 750 da un ignoto signore della corte di Pipino il Breve, re dei Franchi e proprio a corte fu educato. Qui entrò presto in relazione con il principe ereditario, il futuro Carlo Magno, del quale divenne amico, confidente, consigliere e, a quanto pare, anche segretario. Quando nel 781 il piccolo Pipino, nipote del precedente, di appena quattro anni, fu incoronato a Roma re d'Italia da Papa Adriano I, Angilberto divenne l’addetto al regale fanciullo, con il titolo di primicerio di palazzo, nella cui veste egli poteva esercitare vaste funzioni in campo ecclesiastico e civile. Il santo dovette avere un ruolo importante nell'educazione del giovane principe, come pure nei rapporti tra lui ed i sudditi, ma anche tra lui e l’imperatore suo padre, e nel 787 si stabilì a corte. Incaricato poi di governare la regione inclusa tra la Schelda, la Senna ed il mare, fissò la sua dimora nel castello di Centula, nella Piccardia, non distante dall’abbazia fondata nel 625 da Saint Riquier, e continuò a mantenersi in corrispondenza con l’Accademia Palatina, eretta per volere di Carlo Magno dal benedettino inglese Alcuino, della quale fece parte con il nome di Omero e la illustrò con le sue poesie di sapore retorico. Angilberto fu amico di San Guglielmo d’Aquitania, San Benedetto d’Aniane e Sant’Adalardo. Egli corrispose in prosa ed in poesia anche con i sapienti del tempo, tra cui il suo professore di grammatica, Pietro da Pisa, e Teodulfo, vescovo di Orléans, teologo e poeta, uno dei principali esponenti della rinascita carolingia.
La vita di Angilberto, benché egli avesse ricevuto la tonsura, non era molto dissimile da quella degli altri cortigiani quanto a vizi e mondanità. Alcuino stesso ne rimase scandalizzato e non mancò di fargli le sue rimostranze. Angilberto però, anziché rinsavire, si innamorò della principessa Berta, figlia di Carlo Magno, dalla cui unione nacquero due figli, Armida e Nitardo, quest’ultimo storico ed abate di Saint-Riquier. Il sovrano, che quanto a moralità egli per primo non dava un grande esempio, non permise ai due amanti di sposarsi, ma in premio dei servizi che lo pseudogenerogli aveva reso nel campo amministrativo, gli concesse in commenda l’abbazia di Saint-Riquier. La nuova carica moltiplicò i suoi introiti, senza comunque interferire nella sua vita secolare. Con il tempo iniziò a nutrire una profonda venerazione verso San Richiero, dispensatore di potenti miracoli verso i devoti che accorrevano a venerarlo, e colpito da una grave malattia, pensò dunque di fare egli stesso un voto: se fosse guarito avrebbe intrapreso la vita religiosa nell’abbazia di cui egli stesso era già abate commendatario. La sua preghiera fu esaudita, ma non appena si ristabilì in forze fu impegnato nel difendere le sue terre dalle invasioni dei danesi. La grande vittoria che riportò su di loro, che attribuì nuovamente all’intercessione del santo, lo convinse a soddisfare il voto.
A Saint-Riquier-sur-Somme Angilberto divenne sacerdote ed edificò tutti i confratelli con la sua umiltà e l’esercizio della penitenza. Alla morte dell’abate Sinforiano, i monaci all’unanimità lo elessero abate, con la piena approvazione di Carlo Magno, anche se questi temendo che Angilberto potesse seppellire i suoi talenti nell'oscurità e nella solitudine del monastero, lo nominò suo arcicappellano e lo mandò tre volte a Roma dal papa in veste di suo ambasciatore. Nel 792 Angilberto condusse da papa Adriano I il vescovo di Urgel, Felice, condannato dal Concilio di Ratisbona perché, considerando che l’umanità assunta dal Verbo rende Gesù Cristo simile in tutto a noi, riduceva meramente ad un legame di adozione la paternità di Dio Padre nei confronti del Figlio. Nel 794 il sovrano si servì nuovamente di Angilberto per sottoporre al giudizio del pontefice i “Libri Carolingi”, ribadendo la condanna inflitta dal secondo concilio di Nicea nel 787 all’iconoclastia. Il nuovo papa, San Leone III, subito dopo l’elezione incaricò dei legati di portare a Carlo Magno le chiavi della confessione di San Pietro e lo stendardo della città di Roma, per testimoniargli come continuasse a considerarlo protettore della Chiesa e patrizio dei romani. Allo stesso tempo lo pregò di inviargli qualche suo cortigiano perché ricevesse in suo nome il giuramento di fedeltà e di sottomissione del popolo romano. Nel 796 Carlo inviò per una delicata missione ancora una volta Angilberto, che consegnò al papa buona parte dei tesori appena conquistati dall’esercito franco del duca friulano Errico, utili per restaurare ed abbellire le basiliche di Roma e il palazzo del Laterano, allora residenza pontificia.
Anche ad Angilberto spettò parte di quel tesoro ed egli se ne servì per ampliare ed arricchire la sua abbazia, nonché per dotarla di una biblioteca. Dopo l’ultima missione il santo si distaccò drasticamente dalla corte e dal mondo onde dedicarsi alla vita interiore, ristabilire innanzitutto con il suo esempio l’osservanza rigolosa della regola e curare la solennità delle celebrazioni liturgiche. Non a torto Angilberto fu considerato secondo fondatore di Saint-Riquier, poiché sotto il suo governo l’abbazia conobbe una nuova fioritura. Curò l’erezione di tre nuove chiese, che dedicò rispettivamente al Salvatore, a San Benedetto ed ai santi del suo ordine, e per l’occasione fece pervenire preziose reliquie da Roma, da Costantinopoli, da Gerusalemme e da altri santuari europei. Nell’800 il futuro imperatore Carlo Magno si recò con Alcuino a celebrare la Pasqua a Saint-Riquier ed il medesimo anno Angilberto seguì il sovrano a Roma per una difficile missione in difesa del papa: in riconoscimento all’aiuto ricevuto, la notte di Natale Leone III incoronò il re franco dando così origine al Sacro Romano Impero d’Occidente.
Angilberto approfittò dell’occasione per ottenere dal papa il rinnovo dei privilegi dell’abbazia e l’esenzione dalla giurisdizione episcopale di Amiens per tutti i suoi domini. Il santo abate costituì tre cori, composti da trecento religiosi e cento fanciulli, che cantassero perennemente l’ufficio divino nelle tre chiese per la salute di Carlo e la prosperità del suo regno. Prova tangibile dell’importanza che Angilberto rivestì al tempo di Carlo Magno è la presenza del suo nome fra i quattro firmatari del testamento dell’imperatore che avrebbero dovuto vigilare sull’esecuzione delle sue ultime volontà. Carlo morì il 28 gennaio 814, ma Angilberto non gli sopravvisse che ventidue giorni: consumato dai digiuni e dalle penitenze, spirò infatti a Saint-Riquier il 18 febbraio seguente e manifestò il desiderio di essere sepolto davanti alla porta principale della basilica conventuale, per essere calpestato da quanti si sarebbero recati nel tempio a pregare. La fama di santità che lo circondava spinse i monaci ad attivarsi per la sua canonizzazione, ma solo dopo tante peripezie nel 1100 papa Pasquale II poté esaudire la loro richiesta.
Autore: Fabio Arduino
SOURCE : https://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/41490
Angilbèrto di
Saint-Riquier
Poeta della corte
carolingia (ca. 745-814). Abate di Saint-Riquier (790) e ministro di Carlo
Magno, fu da lui inviato più volte come ambasciatore a Roma e lo accompagnò
all'incoronazione. Discepolo di Alcuino e
di Paolino d'Aquileia, fu chiamato l'“Omero di Aquisgrana”. Gli è stato
attribuito il frammento epico Karolus Magnus et Leo papa. È venerato
come santo (festa il 18 febbraio).
SOURCE : https://www.sapere.it/enciclopedia/Angilb%C3%A8rto+di+Saint-Riquier.html
Molinier Auguste.« Angilbert, abbé de Saint-Riquier, Carmen de Karolo magno ». Collections numériques de la Sorbonne Année 1901 1 pp. 201-202 : https://www.persee.fr/doc/shf_0000-0000_1901_num_1_1_1538_t1_0201_0000_2#:~:text=Angilbert%2C%20abb%C3%A9%20de%20Saint%2DRiquier%2C%20familier%20de%20Charlemagne%20(%2B,%2C%20I%2C%20355%2D381.
