AIMOIN (c. 96o—c.IOIo), French chronicler, spent the greater part of his life in the monastery of Fleury. His chief works are : Historia Francorum or Libri V. de gestis Francorum, a history of the Franks from the earliest times to 633, which was continued by other writers and brought down to the middle of the I2th century; a life of Abbo, abbot of Fleury ; and books ii. and iii. of the Miracula S. Benedicti.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.-The Historia is printed in Monumenta Germaniae Bibliography.-The Historia is printed in Monumenta Germaniae historica: Scriptores, Band xxvi.; and the Vita and the Miracula in Mabillon, Acta sanctorum ordinis S. Benedicti (Paris, 1668-17o1) . Some fragments by another Aimoin, a monk of St. Germain-des-Pres, are printed in Historiae Francorum Scriptores, tome ii. (1639-49). See Histoire litteraire de la France, tome vii. (1865-6g).