Erchembert (or Erchempert)

an Italian historian, was descended from the dukes of Benevento. The castle of Pilau, where he resided with his father, Adelgair, was taken in August 881, by Pandonulf, count of Capua, and Erchembert was carried away a prisoner, but escaped and took the habit of a monk at the-convent of the Benedictines of Monte Cassino. At the age of twenty-five he was elected abbot of a convent near by; but was driven from it by Arnulf, and returned for the rest of his days to his cell. He wrote a Chronicle, or an extended history of the Lombards, which is believed to be lost, although an abridged edition, from 774 to 888, as a continuation of the work of.Paul Diacre, was published by Antonio Caracioli (Naples, 1626); by Camillo Peregrini, in his Historia Principum Longobardorum, etc. (ibid. 1643). There is also attributed to Erchembert, De Destructione et Renovatione

Cassiensis Cocnobii: — De Israelitarum Incursione: — Vida Landulfi I, Episcopi Capuae, extending from 851 to 879, in verse: — Acta Translationis Corporis St. Matthaei, Apost. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.