Helgaud
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Helgaud or Helgaldus (d. c. 1048), French historian and biographer, was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Fleury.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1040s deaths, 11th-century French historians and French Benedictines.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Died
- 1048
- Works
- 2
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- Vie de Robert le Pieux
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Occupation
- Catholic priest
- Languages spoken
- Old French
- Native language
- Old French
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Student of
- Adalberon of Laon
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- date of death
- 1048-08-27
- date of birth
- 0972-00-00
- writing language
- medieval Latin
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Helgaud or Helgaldus (d. c. 1048), French historian and biographer, was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Fleury.
Little else is known about him save that he was chaplain to the French king, Robert II the Pious, whose life (Vita) he wrote. Although earlier editors of this work of semi-hagiography expressed the opinion that "its value is not great either from the literary or from the historical point of view," it is now recognized as quite valuable, not only for the light it directly sheds on its subject, but also as representing an important phase in the development of medieval history writing.
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