Adelmann of Beauvais

Saint Adelmann of Beauvais was bishop of Beauvais in France and reposed in the year 846. He was a monk at the Benedictine abbey of Corbie, near Amiens in northern France. The abbot of the monastery, Saint Adalhard, was his teacher and spiritual father. Adalhard recommended him as bishop of Beauvais in Picardy, and according to tradition he was elected unanimously in 821 by the emperor, the clergy and the people.

His name, of Old High German origin, means "noble man". His day of commemoration is 4 December; by other sources 8 December, 11 December or 19 July, by the Western calendar (new style). No other details survive in the sources at hand. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.