Flodoard

Flodoard (born with Épernay in 894 - died the March 28th 966 with Rheims, the Marne) is a historian, chronicler and French poet of Latin expression of the Carolingian time.

Biography

He studies in the universities of Rheims, restored by the Foulques archbishop.

Member of the religious service in the Cathedral of Rheims, he became canon about it. He reports to us that towards 400, the bishop Saint Nicaise would have transferred the episcopal see to the center from the town of Rheims.

Favorite of the archbishops Herivaeus and Seulfus, for the election of bishop, it is twice deprived by it by Héribert, count de Vermandois, to be itself regularly opposite with the election of the son of the Count as archbishop.

Under the pontificate of Artaud, he is operations manager in Germanie and with Rome. He is thereafter in conflict with the archbishop Hugues who had dispossessed Artaud of his head office of Rheims.

Flodoard is withdrawn then in an abbey, probably in Saint-Basle, of which he is abbot. He is elected bishop of Noyon and of Tournai in 954.

In 962, old and disabled person, he resigns his abbey.

He dies in Rheims the March 28th 966.

Publications

One has of him:

a History of the church of Rheims ( Historia eccclesiæ Remensis ), written in Latin. It is its principal work, it is capital and of first importance for the history of 9th and 10th century centuries; published by Jacques Sirmond, Paris, 1611; by George Colveneer, Douai, 1617, and reprinted, with a translation in French, of M.Lejeune, by the Academy of Rheims, 1854;
the drafting of the Yearly from 919 to 966 , a Chronic estimated, published by Andre Duchesne, and translated by François Guizot in his Collection of the Memories relating to the French history . Republication in the Collection Sources of the French history under the title " Feudal chronicles of 918-978" at Paleo Clermont-Ferrand (2002);
a vast poem of more than fourteen thousand Latin worms, divided into three books, on the triumphs of Jesus-Christ and of the saints.

Partial sources

Marne Roots according to Anaïs Balourdet with its pleasant authorization

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