Egidio Antonini, surnamed of Viterbo, Latin patriarch of Constantinople, was bo:n at Viterbo in the second half of the 15th centur3^ He was received into the order of the hermits of St. Augustine at the earh' age often years; was professor of philosophy and theology in several towns of Italy, and became one of tlie most eloquent preachers of his epoch. Hav- ing become general of his order in 1507, he was ap- pointed patriarch of Constantinople, and bishop of Vi- terbo, Nepi, Castro, and Sutri. In 1512 he opened, by order of pope Julius II, the Council of Latcran, and on this occasion severely censured the corruption prevail- ing in the Church, and, in particular, among the cler- gy. In 1517 pope Leo X sent him to Germany, and appointed him cardinal ; in the following j'ear he was sent as papal legate to Spain. Egidio was well versed in the Oriental languages, and a good Latin poet. He wrote a commentary to the first three chapters of Gene- sis and to several psalms, Latin dialogues, epistles, and poems, and a treatise De ecclesiai incremento. Some of these works are given in JIartene et Durand,^m/>^i's- sima Collectio veternm monumrntorum, torn, iii.- — Hoe- fer, Noiiv. Biogr. Gener. xv, 718. (A. J. S.)
Egidius. See ^gidius.
Egidius. See Gii. Juan.
Eginhard or Einhard (sometimes also called Agenhard or Ainhard), the biographer of Charle-
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ina;ine, was born about 770. The place of his birth is entirely unknown. At an early age lie repaired to tlic court of Charlemagne, and became a pupil of Al- cuin. Eginhard gained the favor of the emperor to a high degree, and an intimate friendsliip sprang up be- tween him and the emperor's children, especialh' the emperor's oldest son and successor, Louis le Debon- iiaire. The emperor appointed him his private secre- tary, and superintendent of public buildings at Aix- la-Ciiapelle. Eginhard accompanied the emperor in all Ills marches and journeys, never separating from liim excepting on one occasion (80G), when lie Avas dispatched bj' Charlemagne on a mission to po])e Leo, in order to obtain the signature of the pope for the document which divided the empire among the sons of Charlemagne. The emperor departed in his case, as in thatof Alcuin, Angilbert, and some other friends, from his habit not to cumulate ecclesiastical benefices in one hand, and gave to him the abbej^s of St. Bavo and Blandenberg in Ghent, St. Lerontius in Maestricht, Fritzlar in Germany, St. Wandregisil in France, and others. On the death of Charlemagne, he was ap- pointed preceptor of Lothaire, son of Louis le Debon- naire. Tlie latter presented him with a large tract of land in the Odenwald, the centre of which was Mi- chelstadt. Here Eginhard spent the last years of his life in retirement. He was in 8"26 ordained presbyter, and in S"27 assumed as abbot the direction of a monas- ter}^ at Seligenstadt, which he had erected upon his es- tates. As his wife Emma was still alive at this time, he appears to have agreed with her to consider her only as a sistar. The report that his wife was a daughter of Charlemagne is probably untrue. The year of his death is unknown. He was still alive in 848. He probahlj' had no children, and the claim of the counts of Erbach, who trace their descent from him, and in whose castle the coffins of Eginhard and his wife are still shown, is probably unfounded. The reputation of Eginhard rests chiefly upon his life of Charlemagne {Vita et Conversatio Gloriosissimi Imjte- ratoris Karoli Regis Magni, completed about 820), which is generally regarded as the most important historical work of a biographical nature that has come down to us from the jMiddle Ages. It frequentlj'^ served as a model for other biograjihies, and was ex- tensively used as a school-book. The best edition is that of Pertz (1829), in vol. ii of the Monumenta Ger- manice. historica ; another edition, with valuable notes and documents, was published bj' Ideler, Leben v. Wan- dd Karl's des Grosse/i (Gotha, 1839, 2 vols.) Another work, the Annales Begum Francorvm, Pippini, Curoli Magni, Illudouici Imperatoris, embraces the period from 741 to 829 (published in Pertz, Monumenta, vol. i). The first part (741-788) is based on the Annals of Lorsch ; the second part is original. He also wrote an account of the transfer of the relics of St. Marcellin and St. Peter from Eome to his monastery in Seligen- stadt {Historia translationis St. Marcel/ ini et Petri, in Acta Sanctorum, June 2). His EpistolcB, 62 in num- ber, are also of considerable value in a historical point of view. They are published in Weinkens, Eginhar- dus vindlciitus (Francf. 1714). Another work, Libellus de adoranda cnice, is lost. The French consider the edition of Eginhard's works by M.Teulot, with a trans- lation and life of Eginhard (Paris, 1840-43, 2 vols.), to be the best and most complete. — Cave, Hist. Lit., anno 814 ; Moshoim. Ch. HiM. cent, vjii, chap, ii, note 43; Herzog, lical-ICnci/kl. iii, 725; Dahl, Ueber Egin- hard und Emma (Darmstadt, 1817). (A. J. S.)
Eg'lah (Heb. Eglah', nK'", a heifer, as often; Sept. Ai'yrtX and 'AyXri), one of David's wives during his reign in Hebron, and the mother of his son Ith- ream (2 Sam. iii, 5; 1 Chron. iii, 3). B.C. 1045. In both lists the same order is preserved, Eglah being the sixth and last, and in both is she distinguished by the special title of David's " wife." According to the an-