Life of Saint Remigius, Bishop of Rheims

Vita sancti Remigii episcopi Remensis · Hincmar of Rheims (d. 882) · c. 878-882 · hagiography

no English translation located. No published English translation of this text was located in the catalogues and series checked. Where only a non-English rendering or a translation of a daughter version exists, it is recorded below and does not close the gap. Treat this as a gap candidate, not as proof that no translation exists; the evidence names every source checked.

Why this is in the register

HOLLIS Primo keyword searches 'Vita Remigii Hincmar' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Vita%20Remigii%20Hincmar&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 and 'Life of Saint Remigius Hincmar translation' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Life%20of%20Saint%20Remigius%20Hincmar%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 both return no record. The Latin text is available in the verified dMGH scan of MGH SS rer. Merov. 3, where the volume contents list 'Vita Remigii episcopi Remensis auctore Hincmaro' (https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_ss_rer_merov_3/index.htm). No English translation appears in HOLLIS, and the standard series were checked without result; Hincmar's Life is known to English readers only through summaries of the Remigius legend.

Hincmar's Remigius is the largest and most politically loaded Carolingian saint's life: it rewrites the baptism of Clovis, invents the ampulla of holy chrism and supplies the Frankish monarchy with its founding miracle. Without a translation, the English reader cannot see how a 9th-century archbishop manufactured liturgical legitimacy, which is the central political use of hagiography in the Carolingian world.

Existing translations recorded

None recorded in English. Non-English versions, where they exist, are named in the evidence above.

Electronic text

Scanned witnesses

Source and licence
dmgh · PDF scan · free access via dMGH; rights with the Monumenta Germaniae Historica mgh_ss_rer_merov_3/index.htm#page/(239)

Scan search: not checked. Not searched in the scan pass: this dossier was outside the 121-work scan target set.

Harvard Hollis

Sources checked

Record	Citation
Hincmar of Rheims : life and work · 2015 · eng	"Hincmar of Rheims : life and work." Manchester, UK : Manchester University^^Press, 2015. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990144752380203941

Cite: Tergwame, “Life of Saint Remigius, Bishop of Rheims” (latin gap dossier), 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/gaps/latin-hincmar-vita-remigii