Aimoin (died 9 June 889) was a monk of
Saint-Germain-des-Prés from before 845. From 872 he was the abbey's chancellor (archivist) and chief copyist, overseeing the
scriptorium. He was the teacher of
Abbo Cernuus.
"871. Aimoin, moine de Saint-Germain des Prés"
in Auguste Molinier
Auguste Molinier (30 September 185119 May 1904) was a French historian.
Biography
Born in Toulouse, Auguste Molinier was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes, which he left in 1873, and also at the École pratique des hautes études; an ...
, ''Les Sources de l'histoire de France – Des origines aux guerres d'Italie'', I, Époque primitive, mérovingiens et carolingiens. Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1901. p. 267. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
Aimoin's chief interests were relics
In religion, a relic is an object or article of religious significance from the past. It usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangi ...
and miracles, and his writings mostly hagiography
A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies migh ...
. Around 874 he wrote ''De miraculis sancti Germani'' ("On the Miracles of Saint Germain"), and ''De Normanorum gestis circa Parisiacam urbem et de divine in eos ultione tempore Caroli calvi'' ("On the Deeds of the Normans at the Siege of the City of Paris and of the Divine Vengeance upon Them in the Time of Charles the Bald"), which only survives as a single fragment. It is an important source for contemporary Viking raids
The Viking Age () was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe and reached North America. It followed the Migration Period and the Germ ...
. Both of these were first edited in the second volume of ''Historiae Francorum Scriptores'', published at Paris in 1639–49.
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Year of birth unknown
889 deaths
9th-century Christian monks
French Roman Catholic clergy