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ERMOLDUS NIGELLUS, or ERMOLD THE BLACK

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 750 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ERMOLDUS NIGELLUS, or ERMOLD THE See also:

BLACK  , was a See also:monk of See also:Aquitaine, who accompanied See also:King See also:Pippin, son of the See also:emperor See also:Louis I., on a See also:campaign into See also:Brittany in 824 . Subsequently he was banished from Pippin's See also:court on a See also:charge of inciting the king against his See also:father, and retired to See also:Strassburg, where he sought to regain the emperor's favour by See also:writing a poem on his See also:life and deeds . About 83o he obtained his recall, and has been identified with Hermoldus, who appears as Pippin's See also:chancellor in 838 . Ermoldus was a cultured See also:man with a knowledge of the Latin poets, and his poem, In honorem Hludovici imperatoris, has some See also:historical value . It consists of four books and deals with the life and exploits of Louis from 781 to 826 . He also wrote two poems in See also:imitation of See also:Ovid, 'which were addressed to Pippin .. His writings are published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica . Scriptores, See also:Band 2 (See also:Hanover, 1826 fol.); by J . P . See also:Migne in the Patrologia See also:Latina, tome Io5 (See also:Paris, 1844); and by E . DiImmler in the Poetae See also:Latini aevi Carolini, Band 2 (See also:Berlin, 1881-1884) . See W .

O . Henkel, Ober den historischen See also:

Werth der Gedichte See also:des Ermoldus Nigellus (See also:Eilenburg, 1876) ; W . See also:Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen, Band I (Berlin, 19o4); and A . See also:Potthast, Bibliotheca historica, pp . 430-431 (Berlin, 1896) .

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