Career
Martianus appears to have been a lay teacher all his adult life - there is no indication he was a monk - apparently settling at Laon in the late 840s, during the term of bishop Pardule. By the early 850s he was master of the cathedral school, which he remained till the end of his life. His students included Dido, Manno, Bernard and Hincmar. In this way he was responsible for the education of generations of pupils.
His intellectual interests were very broad, including computus, exegesis, medicine, history, grammar, Greek. He annotated the Annals of Laon, the computistical works of Bede, wrote a commentary on Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, and preserved fragments of a lost commentary on Virgil by Aelius Donatus.
Following the deposition of Hincmar, Martianus actively helped restore order in the cathedral chapter.
A copy of a letter from Martianus to Servatus Lupus of Ferrières has survived. The latter was a fellow humanist. Martianus is thought to have corresponded with Irish and continental scholars at the court of Charles the Bald, though no letters are extant.
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