Aegidius (given name)

Aegidius (given name) is a male given name of Greek origin.

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

## Variations[edit]

* Giles: English
* Gilles: French
* Ilya/Ilja: Slav
* Ilj: Slovene

## Bearers[edit]

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

### Pre-modern era[edit]

Chronological order

* 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. 1190–1262), one of the original companions of saint Francis of Assisi
* Egidius Monoszló (c. 1240–1313), Hungarian baron
* Aegidius de Lessinia (died c. 1304), scholastic philosopher, pupil of Thomas Aquinas
* Aegidius Romanus or Giles of Rome (c. 1243–1316), archbishop of Bourges and philosopher
* Egidius de Francia or Egidius de Murino (fl. mid 14th century), sometimes Magister Frater Egidius, French composer and music theorist in Italy
* Egidius (Chantilly Codex composer) (c. 1350–1400), sometimes Magister Egidius, composer in the Chantilly Codex
* Egidius Cantoris (fl. 1410–1411, one of the two leaders of the Men of Understanding, a heretical sect
* Aegidius Campensis or Gilles Deschamps (fl. 1411 and 1431), bishop of Coutances present at the trial of Joan of Arc, teacher of Jean Gerson
* Egidius Binchois, usually known as Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460), Franco-Flemish composer
* Aegidius of Viterbo or Aegidius Canisius (1472–1532), Italian cardinal, theologian, orator, humanist and poet

### Modern era[edit]

Alphabetical order by last name

* Egidius Braun (born 1925), president of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund
* Aegidius Bucherius (1576–1665), French Jesuit and chronological scholar
* Ægidius Elling (1861–1949), Norwegian inventor
* Aegidius Gelenius (1595–1656), Cologne historian
* Aegidius Hunnius (1550–1603), Lutheran theologian
* Egidius Junger (1833–1895), German-born bishop of Nesqually
* Egidius Juška (born 1975), retired Lithuanian soccer player
* Aegidius Rousselet (1610–1686), also known as Gilles Rousselet, French engraver
* Aegidius Sadeler (c. 1570–1629), Flemish baroque era painter and engraver
* Egidius Slanghen (1820–1882), mayor of Hoensbroek, Netherlands
* Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss writer

## See also[edit]

* Egidio, a list of people with the given name
* Egide, a list of people with the given name

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