Aegidius (disambiguation)
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Aegidius or Ægidius was a Gallo-Roman promoted as magister militum in Gaul.
Aegidius may also refer to:
- Aegidius Gelenius (1595-1656), Cologne historian
- Aegidius of Assisi (died 1262), one of the original companions of St. Francis of Assisi
- Aegidius of Viterbo (1470-1532), Italian cardinal, theologian, orator, humanist and poet
- Aegidius Sadeler (circa 1570-1629), Flemish baroque era painter and engraver
- Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572), Swiss writer.
In Ægidius the Æ merely a grapheme formed from the letters a and e, represented in print by a ligature; though it has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of many languages, it is not a variant spelling in English.
Ægidius may refer to:
- Ægidius (saint) (circa 650-710), Christian hermit saint
- Ægidius Elling (1861-1949), Norwegian inventor