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See also:ANGILBERT (d. 814) , Frankish Latin poet, and See also:minister of See also:Charlemagne, was of See also:noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the See also:palace school under See also:Alcuin. As the friend and adviser of the See also:emperor's son, See also:Pippin, he assisted for a while in the See also:government of See also:Italy, and was later sent on three important embassies to the See also:pope, in 792, 794 and 796. Although he was the See also:father of two See also:children by Charlemagne's daughter, Bertha, one of them named See also:Nithard, we have no See also:authentic See also:account of his See also:marriage, and from 790 he was See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of St Riquier, where his brilliant See also:rule gained for him later the renown of a See also:saint. Angilbert, however, was little like the true See also:medieval saint; his poems reveal rather the culture and tastes of a See also:man of the See also:world, enjoying the closest intimacy with the imperial See also:family. He accompanied Charlemagne to See also:Rome in Boo and was one of the witnesses to his will in 814. Angilbert was the See also:Homer of the emperor's See also:literary circle, and was the probable author of an epic, of which the fragment which has been preserved describes the See also:life at the palace and the See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting between Charlemagne and See also:Leo III. It is a See also:mosaic from See also:Virgil, See also:Ovid, See also:Lucan and See also:Fortunatus, composed in the manner of See also:Einhard's use of Suetonius, and exhibits a true poetic See also:gift. Of the shorter poems, besides the greeting to Pippin on his return from the See also:campaign against the See also:Avars (796), an See also:epistle to See also:David (Charlemagne) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a See also:house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace. The reference to Bertha, however, is distant and respectful, her name occurring merely on the See also:list of princesses to whom he sends his salutation.
Angilbert's poems have been published by E. See also:Dummler in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. For criticisms of this edition see Traube in See also:Roederer's Schriften See also:fur germanische Philologie (1888). See also A. See also:Molinier, See also:Les See also:Sources de l'histoire de See also:France.
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