PRUDENZIO of TROYES. - Theologian and writer of Spanish origin, d. at Troyes on 6 April 861, he changed his name from Galindo to P. and was educated in France, where he became court chaplain, and later succeeded Adalberto in the see of Troyes, apparently in 846–47.
His works are in PL 115, 965-1438 and include a florilegium from the Psalms and another from Holy Scripture (1421-40): Sermo de vito et morte gloriosus Virginis Maurae (ibid., 1367-76), a saint whom P. had known; Annales (ibid., 1377-1420), continuing the Annales Bertiniani from 835 to 861, of great value for the history of the Carolingian Empire; Inemaro of Reims corrected many of its expressions concerning Gottescalco (ed. G. H. Pertz, in MGH, Scriptores, I, p. 419 ff.). Little has survived of his poetic works and letters (a short poem on the Gospels: PL 115, 1419-20, ed. MGH, Poëtae lat., II, p. 679 ff.; a letter addressed to his brother bishop: PL 115, 1367). He treated the subject of predestination: Ep. ad Hincmarum et Pardulum (ibid., 971-1010), in which, in a calm tone, he defends the doctrine of S. Agostino (end of 849), at the request of Inemaro of Reims; De praedestinatione contra Joannem Scotum (ibid., 1109-1336) in 852; Ep. tractoria ad Venilonem (ibid., 1365-68). P. is one of the staunchest representatives of the rigorous Augustinianism (v.) of his time.