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Audoin, Audoen or Ouen, and Dado to his contemporaries, (609 in Sancy
close to Soissons
- 686 in Clichy
), was a Frankish bishop
, courtier, chronicler, and Catholic saint.
Audoin lived at the court of Clotaire II
and later at the court of Dagobert I
, who made him his referendary. He was part of a group of young courtiers like Saint Wandrille and Saint Didier of Cahors
and was a close friend of Saint Eligius
, whose vita he wrote; Audoin was consecrated bishop of Rouen in 640. He founded Rebais
Abbey, and sent missionaries to areas that were still pagan.
He became an advisor of Theuderic III
and upheld the policy of Ebroin
, the mayor of the palace
, to such a degree that he was involved in the treatment of Saint Leger. Nevertheless, the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum
, thoroughly hostile to the memory of Ebroin, invariably referred to Audoin as "blessed" or "sainted," and in describing his death said he "migravit ad Dominum," a phrase he otherwise reserved in the original part of his history for the death of the "glorious lord of good memory, Childebert
"(III), "the just king."
His father was Saint Authaire. Dado's brothers were Ado and Rado.
A poem on Audoin's life was written in the 10th-century by Frithegod
, but it is now lost.
Sancy-les-Cheminots
Sancy-les-Cheminots is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-References:*...
close to Soissons
Soissons
Soissons is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France, located on the Aisne River, about northeast of Paris. It is one of the most ancient towns of France, and is probably the ancient capital of the Suessiones...
- 686 in Clichy
Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine
-Administration:The canton covers a part of the commune; the other is in the northern part of Levallois-Perret-Twinnings: Heidenheim, Germany, since 1959 Sankt Pölten, Austria, since 1968 Santo Tirso, Portugal, since 1991 Rubí, Spain, since 2005 Southwark, United Kingdom, since 2005Clichy has also...
), was a Frankish bishop
Franks
The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
, courtier, chronicler, and Catholic saint.
Audoin lived at the court of Clotaire II
Clotaire II
Chlothar II , called the Great or the Young , King of Neustria, and, from 613 to 629, King of all the Franks, was not yet born when his father, King Chilperic I died in 584...
and later at the court of Dagobert I
Dagobert I
Dagobert I was the king of Austrasia , king of all the Franks , and king of Neustria and Burgundy . He was the last Merovingian dynast to wield any real royal power...
, who made him his referendary. He was part of a group of young courtiers like Saint Wandrille and Saint Didier of Cahors
Didier of Cahors
Saint Didier, also known as Desiderius was a Merovingian royal official of aristocratic Gallo-Roman extraction....
and was a close friend of Saint Eligius
Saint Eligius
Saint Eligius is the patron saint of goldsmiths, other metalworkers, and coin collectors. He is also the patron saint of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers , a corps of the British Army, but he is best known for being the patron saint of horses and those who work with them...
, whose vita he wrote; Audoin was consecrated bishop of Rouen in 640. He founded Rebais
Rebais
Rebais is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.-External links:* * *...
Abbey, and sent missionaries to areas that were still pagan.
He became an advisor of Theuderic III
Theuderic III
Theuderic III was the king of Neustria on two occasions and king of Austrasia from 679 to his death in 691. Thus, he was the king of all the Franks from 679...
and upheld the policy of Ebroin
Ebroin
Ebroin was the Frankish mayor of the palace of Neustria on two occasions; firstly from 658 to his deposition in 673 and secondly from 675 to his death in 680 or 681...
, the mayor of the palace
Mayor of the Palace
Mayor of the Palace was an early medieval title and office, also called majordomo, from the Latin title maior domus , used most notably in the Frankish kingdoms in the 7th and 8th centuries....
, to such a degree that he was involved in the treatment of Saint Leger. Nevertheless, the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum
Liber Historiae Francorum
Liber historiae Francorum is a book that briefly starts as secondary source for early Franks in the time of Marcomer, and it gives a short breviarum of events until the time of the late Merovingians, where it becomes an important primary source of the contemporaneous history...
, thoroughly hostile to the memory of Ebroin, invariably referred to Audoin as "blessed" or "sainted," and in describing his death said he "migravit ad Dominum," a phrase he otherwise reserved in the original part of his history for the death of the "glorious lord of good memory, Childebert
Childebert
Childebert was the name of several Frankish kings:*Childebert I, king of Paris *Childebert II, king of Austrasia *Childebert the Adopted, king of Austrasia, known as Childebert III in France...
"(III), "the just king."
His father was Saint Authaire. Dado's brothers were Ado and Rado.
A poem on Audoin's life was written in the 10th-century by Frithegod
Frithegod
Freithegod, sometimes Frithegode or Fredegaud was a poet and clergyman in the middle 10th-century who served Oda of Canterbury, an Archbishop of Canterbury....
, but it is now lost.
Sources
- Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints, edited, revised and supplemented by Thurston and Attwater - Christian classics, Westminster, Maryland.