ANGILBERT (d. 814), Frankish Latin poet, and minister of Charlemagne, was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school under Alcuin. He is said to have been the father of two children by Charlemagne's daughter, Bertha, one of them named Nithard. From 790 he was abbot of St. Riquier, and in 80o he accompanied Charlemagne to Rome, and was one of the witnesses to his will in 814. Angilbert's poems show the culture and tastes of a man of the world, enjoying the closest intimacy with the imperial family ; he was called the "Homer" of the emperor's literary circle, and a fragment of an epic, as cribed, probably correctly, to him, and called by its editors "Charlemagne et le Pape Leon" describes the life at the palace and the meeting between Charlemagne and Leo III. Of the shorter poems, besides the greetings to Pippin on his return from the campaign against the Avars (796), an epistle to David (Charlemagne) incidentally reveals a delightful picture of the poet living with his children in a house surrounded by pleasant gardens near the emperor's palace. The reference to Bertha, however, is distant and respectful, her name occurring merely on the list of princesses to whom he sends his salutation.
Angilbert's poems have been published by E. Dummler in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. For criticism of this edition see Traube in Roederer's Schriften fur germanische Philologie (1888).