| Short Name: | Paul, the Deacon |
| Full Name: | Paul, the Deacon, approximately 720-799? |
| Birth Year (est.): | 720 |
| Death Year (est.): | 799 |
Paul the Deacon [Paulus Diaconus], son of Warnefrid or Winefrid, was born at Frinli, in Italy, circa 730. He studied at Pavia. For some time he was tutor to Adelperga, daughter of Desiderius, the last of the Lombard kings, and then lived at the court of her husband, Arichisius of Beneveuto. Eventually he became a monk at Monte Cassino, where he died circa 799. He was the author of several works, including Be Gest. Langobardorum. His hymn, “Ut queant laxis resonare fibris," is in three parts.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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