Hilduin

HILDUIN. b. ca. 785; d. 22 November 855. A cousin of the Frankish Emperor Louis the Pious (ruled 814-840), Hilduin was abbot of Saint Denis, near Paris, from 814 until 840, and also abbot of Saint Médard of Soissons, Saint Germain des Prés in Paris, and Saint Ouen in Rouen during this time. As Archicapellanus of Louis the Pious’ chapel from 819 to 840, he was a member of the royal household, responsible for ecclesiastical legislation, and close to the centre of Carolingian politics. Hilduin lost all his positions and was exiled to Corvey in 830-31 for plotting against Louis with Lothar, one of Louis’ three sons. In 832 Louis, who had regained the imperial throne, forgave and reinstated...