William

male, deceased (871)
March of Pannonia, Wilhelminer War, Margrave, ninthcentury, Szombathely, Margrave of Austria
William (II) was the margrave ("comes terminalis", "frontier count") of the March of Pannonia in the mid ninth century until his death on campaign...
Pope John VIII

Pope John VIII

male, deceased (882)
bishop, Charles III, saracen, charles ii, creed, pope…ninthcentury
John VIII was pope from December 13, 872 to December 16, 882. He is often considered one of the ablest pontiffs of the ninth century and the last...
Sedulius Scottus

Sedulius Scottus

male
Medieval linguist, death, Scholar, Annals of the Four Master, 9th century, ninthcentury
Sedulius Scottus was Irish teacher, grammarian and Scriptural commentator, who lived in the ninth century. Sedulius is sometimes called Sedulius...

Obadiah

male
ninthcentury, 8th century, 9th century, Bulan, yeshivot, Khazar ruler
Obadiah was the name of a Khazar ruler of the late eighth or early ninth century. He is described as coming from among "the sons of the sons of...

Bragi Boddason

male
skald, Hamdir and Sorli, Viking Age poet, Skalds, in poetry, edda…ninthcentury
In his "Edda" Snorri Sturluson quotes many stanzas attributed to Bragi Boddason the old ("Bragi Boddason inn gamli"), a court poet who served...

Winnoc

male, deceased (717)
abbot, fourteenth century, ninthcentury, welsh, flanders, belgian
Saint Winnoc (c. 640-c. 716/717 AD) was an abbot or prior of Wormhout. Three lives of this saint are extant. The best of these, the first life, was...

'Abd Al-Hamīd Ibn Turk

male
algebra, Islamic mathematics, turkish, turk, scientist, ninthcentury
"'"' (Turkey/Iraq?; fl. 830) was a ninth century mathematician. He wrote a work on algebra of which only a chapter called "Logical Necessities in...

Abbo Cernuus

male
poet, Abbo of Saint-Germain, Bella Parisiacæ Urbis, Wars of the City of Paris, De bellis Parisiacæ urbis, Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés…ninthcentury
Abbo Cernuus, Abbo Parisiensis, or Abbo of Saint-Germain was a Neustrian Benedictine monk and poet of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in P...

Acisclus

deceased (304)
ninthcentury, cordoba, Saint, 10th century, spanish, roman
Saint Acisclus (also Ascylus, Ocysellus; Santo Acisclo; Saint Aciscle was a Spanish martyr of Córdoba. His life is mentioned by Eulogius of C...

Erchempert

male
Chronicler, Middle Ages, Lombard, benevento, historian, Chroniclers…ninthcentury
Erchempert (also Herempert, ,) was a monk of Monte Cassino in the final quarter of the ninth century. He chronicled a history of Lombard Benevento,...