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AIMOIN (c. 96o-c. ioro)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 439 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AIMOIN (c. 96o-c. ioro)  , See also:French chronicler, was See also:born at Villefranche de Longchapt about 96o, and in See also:early See also:life entered the monastery of See also:Fleury, where he became a See also:monk and passed the greater See also:part of his life . His See also:chief See also:work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri V. de gestis Francorum, which deals with the See also:history of the See also:Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the See also:middle of the 12th See also:century . It was much in See also:vogue during the middle ages, but its See also:historical value is now regarded as slight . It has been edited by G . See also:Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica : Scriptores, See also:Band See also:xxvi . (See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826-1892) . He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a See also:series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost . This has been published by J . See also:Mabillon in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti (See also:Paris, 1668-1701) . See also:Aimoin's third work was the See also:composition of books ii. and iii. of the Miracula Sancti Benedicti, the first See also:book of which was written by another monk of Fleury named Adrevald . This also appears in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti . Aimoin, who died about xoxo, must be distinguished from Aimoin, a monk of St Germain-See also:des-Pros, who wrote De miraculis sancti Germani,and a fragment De Normanorum gestis circa Parisiacam urbem et de divina in eos ultione tempore Caroli See also:calvi .

Both of these are published in the Historiae Francorum Scriptores, Tome ii . (Paris, 1639-1649) . See Histoire litteraire de la See also:

France, tome vii . (Paris, 1865—1869) .

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