REMIGIO, archbishop of ROUEN. - Natural son of Carlo Martello, educated at court, he succeeded Rainfroi in the archbishopric of Rouen around 754–55.
After a mission entrusted to him by his brother Pipino il Piccolo to Paolo I, in 760 he introduced at Rouen, following the example of St. Crodegando at Metz, Roman chant and liturgical usages, subsequently extended by royal decree to the whole “Frankish” Church. Sent to Desiderio, king of the Longobardi, he requested the restitution of the patrimony of St. Peter. It is also believed that he was charged with bringing back to Montecassino from Fleury (St-Benoît-sur-Loire) the body of St. Benedetto, but that he was prevented from doing so, according to legend, by a miraculous event. Having died at Rouen about 771–72, he was buried in the Cathedral, whence his body was transferred, under Carlo il Calvo, to S. Medardo of Soissons, and then in 1090 to St-Ouen of Rouen, where it disappeared during the plundering of the abbey by the Huguenots. Bishop Francesco I di Harlay inserted his name and feast (19 Jan.) in the Breviary of Rouen of 1627.