GOSLIN, or GAUZLINUS (d. c. 886)

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GOSLIN, or GAUZLINUS (d. c. 886) ,

bishop

of Paris and defender of the city against the Northmen (885), was, according to some authorities, the son of Roricon II.,

count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

of Maine, according to others the natural son of the emperor Louis I. In 848 he became a monk, and entered a monastery at Reims, later he became abbot of St Denis. Like most of the prelates of his time he took a prominent

part

PART

in the struggle against the Northmen, by whom he and his brother Louis were taken prisoners (858), and he was released only after paying a heavy

ransom

RANSOM (from Lat. redemptio, through Fr. rancon)

(Prudentii Trecensis episcopi Annales, ann. 858). From 8S5 to 867 he held intermittently, and from 867 to 881 regularly, the office of

chancellor

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

to Charles the Bald and his successors. In 883 or 884 he was elected

bishop

of Paris, and foreseeing the dangers to which the city was to be exposed from the attacks of the Northmen, he planned and directed the strengthening of the defences, though he also relied for security on the merits of the

relics

RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

of St Germain and St Genevieve. When the attack finally came (885), the defence of the city was entrusted to him and to Odo,

count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

of Paris, and Hugh, abbot of St Germain l'Auxerrois. The city was attacked on the 26th of November, and the struggle for the possession of the

bridge

BRIDGE

(now the Pontau-

Change

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. 冠 urmu', to bend)

) lasted for two days; but Goslin repaired the destruction of the wooden tower overnight, and the Normans were obliged to give up the attempt to take the city by

storm

. The siege lasted for about a year longer, while the emperor Charles the Fat was in Italy. Goslin died soon after the preliminaries of the peace had been agreed on, worn out by his exertions, or killed by a pestilence which raged in the city.
See Amaury Duval, L'Eveque Gozlin ou le siege de Paris par les Normands, chronique du IX siecle (2 vols., Paris, 1832, 3rd ed. ib. 1835).

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