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Aegidius (given name)

male given name

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ252934 ↗
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Aegidius (given name) is a male given name of Greek origin.

Aegidius (died 464 or 465) was a magister militum in Gaul.

Variations

Tilen: Slovene

Egidijus: Lithuanian

Giles: English

Gilles: French

Bearers

Bearers of the variants Aegidius, Ægidius, or Egidius include:

Pre-modern era

Chronological order

Aegidius (c. early 5th century–464/465) Magister militum in Gaul, ruler of the Kingdom of Soissons

Saint Aegidius or Saint Giles (c. 650–c. 710), hermit saint from Athens

Aegidius Corboliensis or Gilles de Corbeil (c. 1140–first quarter of the 13th century), physician

Egidius Parisiensis (c. 1160–1223/1224), French poet

Egidius Smaragd (fl. c. 1185–1215), Hungarian noble of French origin

Aegidius of Assisi (c.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aegidius (given name)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.