Angilbert

Venerable Angilbert (born about 760) was Count of Ponthieu and a Frankish poet, educated under Alcuin, who served Charlemagne as secretary, diplomat and son-⁠in-⁠law. His early life was worldly, but later he became a model abbot of Saint-⁠Riquier in the north of France, where some three hundred monks lived. He reposed on 18 February 814 and is honoured on the day of his death. Our record wrongly places his death around 740. He is venerated as a saint of the undivided Church and is commemorated on 18 February (new calendar).