Martinus Hiberniensis

Martin Hiberniensis (Martin the Irishman) (819 - 875), was a teacher, scribe, and master of the cathedral school at Laon.

Hiberniensis, "one of the greatest Irish Carolingian scholars," notes that he was an exile in The Annals of Laon (Annales Laudunenses). There is not much known about the reason for his exile, or what happened after.

Martianus is assumed to have been a lay teacher all his adult life; there is no indication that he was a monk. He settled at Laon in the late 840s during the term of Bishop Pardule. By the early 850s, he was master of the cathedral school where he remained until the end of his life. His students included Dido, Manno, Bernard, and Hincmar.

His intellectual interests included computus, exegesis, medicine, history, grammar, and Greek. He annotated the Annals of Laon, the computistical works of Bede. He also provided a commentary on Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii and preserved fragments of a lost commentary on Virgil by Aelius Donatus.

Following the deposition of Hincmar, Martianus actively helped restore order in the cathedral chapter.

A copy of a letter from Martianus to a fellow humanist, Servatus Lupus of Ferrières, has survived. Martianus is thought to have corresponded with Irish and continental scholars at the court of Charles the Bald.

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