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Monk of Jumièges

The Monk of Jumièges is the anonymous author of the Life of Saint Filibert, the seventh-century founder of Jumièges on the Seine and of Noirmoutier on the Atlantic coast, who suffered exile for his part in the quarrel between Ebroin and the bishops of Neustria. Written within a generation of the saint’s death, it is a primary witness to Merovingian monasticism.