# Agilmar

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For the bishop of Clermont, see [Agilmar (bishop of Clermont)](/source/Agilmar_(bishop_of_Clermont)).

**Agilmar**[a] (died 16 July 859/860) was the [Frankish](/source/Francia) [archbishop of Vienne](/source/Archbishop_of_Vienne), in modern France, from 842 to his death. Before being elected archbishop, he was the abbot of the [abbey of Saint-Claude](/source/Condat_Abbey).[1] He was also the arch-chancellor of Emperor [Lothair I](/source/Lothair_I) from 835 to 843.[2]

Agilmar was elected to succeed [Bernard](/source/Bernard_(archbishop_of_Vienne)) (died 23 January 842) during the Frankish civil war of 840–43. Although he was supervising the chancery of Lothair I, he was in contact with the [West Frankish](/source/West_Francia) king, [Charles the Bald](/source/Charles_the_Bald), from whom he received confirmation of his church's possessions in [Aquitaine](/source/Aquitaine) on 23 November 842.[2][3] This meeting between Agilmar and Charles took place at a place called Theorenstein (perhaps *Theorinsthe*) in the [kingdom of Burgundy](/source/Kingdom_of_Burgundy) (*in regno Burgundiae*) before the final peace between Charles and Lothair assigned the Burgundian kingdom, where Vienne lay, to Lothair. at the time of the confirmation, Agilmar was still only bishop-elect (*electus episcopus*) and had not been consecrated. He appears to have been still unconsecrated in June 843, when he was named as "chosen and called" (*electus et vocatus*) to the see. A document of 16 December 842 has the first use of the title "archbishop" for the unconsecrated bishop.[1]

Following Lothair's death in 855, Agilmar held no special position at the court of his successor in the south, [Charles of Provence](/source/Charles_of_Provence). He did receive from the king some lands in the [Lyonnais](/source/Lyonnais), the confirmation of one of his church's *[precaria](/source/Precaria)* and the restitution of certain lands which had been granted to Count [Girard of Vienne](/source/Girart_de_Roussillon) during the reign of Emperor [Louis the Pious](/source/Louis_the_Pious).[4] Count Girard and Archbishop [Remigius of Lyon](/source/Remigius_of_Lyon) had expressly requested that Charles make this restitution in fulfillment of the canons of the [council of Savonnières](/source/Council_of_Savonni%C3%A8res) (859).[5]

## Notes

1. Also given as Aglimar, Angelmal, Egilmar, Achilmar, Agilmarus, Aglimarus, Agelmarus, Egilmarus, Achilmarus or Allimaro.[6][7]

## References

1. [René Poupardin](/source/Ren%C3%A9_Poupardin), [*Le Royaume de Provence sous les Carolingiens, 855–933*](https://archive.org/details/leroyaumedeprove00poupuoft) (Paris: Émile Bouillon, 1901), pp. 346–47.

1. Elina Screen, "The Importance of the Emperor: Lothar I and the Frankish Civil War, 840–843", *Early Medieval Europe*, 12 (2003), p. 40.

1. Poupardin, *Le Royaume de Provence*, p. 199.

1. Poupardin, *Le Royaume de Provence*, p. 15.

1. Giles Constable, "*Nona et Decima*: An Aspect of Carolingian Economy", *Speculum*, 35:2 (1960), pp. 242–43.

1. Claude Charvet, *Histoire de la sainte église de Vienne* (Lyon, 1761), pp. 184ff.

1. [Giles Constable](/source/Giles_Constable), "The *Liber Memorialis* of Remiremont", *Speculum*, 47:2 (1972), p. 268 n. 32.

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