Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman, Gallican, and Benedictine Martyrologies. Authority: — An ancient Life, which is trustworthy. ] Geremar, son of Rigobert and Haga, of noble Frankish race, was born near Beauvais in the reign of Clothair II. He was called in youth to the court of Dagobert I. He married a maiden named Domana, and by her had two daughters and a son. He contracted a warm friendship for S. Ouen of Rouen, and by his advice surrendered his estates to his son on his coming of age, built a monastery at Vardes, and retired to the abbey of Pentale at the confluence of the Seine and Risble, where he was speedily constituted abbot. His strictness displeased some of the monks, and they S. Geremar.

…resolved to make away with him. At cockcrow every morning it was the custom of the community to rise and go to church and sing prime, and return to their beds only at daybreak. One morning whilst Geremar was in church some of the malcontents fastened a sharp knife in his bed with the haft attached to the laths, and the blade erect, so that when Geremar returned in the dusk to the dormitory, and flung himself on his bed, the knife would pierce him. But on this morning, contrary to his usual custom, he felt his bed before flinging himself on it, and thus discovered the knife. Disgusted at this attempt on his life, he determined to leave the abbey, but without publishing abroad the reason, lest it should cause scandal. He then found a cave and retired into it. Shortly after, news reached him that his son Amalbert, who had been in attendance on the king in Gascony, on his way home had been attacked by a mortal illness which had cut short his days in the flower of youth. Geremar, on receiving the news cried out, “O my God ! Thou hast been merciful towards me, in deigning to receive my son into Thy glory.*' He went to meet the funeral train, which was accompanied by the king and his nobles, and brought his son’s body to the monastery of ITsle. Having become master of his entire fortune by the death of Amalbert, he resolved to consecrate it to God. By the advice of S. Ouen he built and endowed a stately monastery at Flay in the forests of Bray, on the Epte, now called S. Germer. He became abbot of this monastery, and died in it, in the odour of sanctity.