Angilbert was a Frankish poet and diplomat who served as a high-ranking official under Charlemagne. Educated at the palace school in Aachen alongside the scholar Alcuin, he held various significant roles, including serving as a secretary and a primicerius palatii. He acted as an influential advisor to Charlemagne's son, Pepin, and conducted multiple diplomatic missions to the papacy. Later in life, he transitioned from courtly service to monastic leadership, eventually becoming the abbot of the monastery at Saint-Riquier.