Erkembode

[1] It has been surmised that he was an Irish monk[2] who travelled with several companions to Sithiu, now Saint-Omer in northern France where he lived in the monastery.

Later Erkembode was elected by the clergy and people as bishop of Thérouanne, while remaining abbot of his abbey.

Erkembode, means "recognised envoy"[2] The region is now called French Flanders.

The name of the see of Erkembode, Thérouanne, was already quoted as the capital of the Morini by Julius Caesar in his Gallic Wars.

An early vita by Jean Lelong, called Joannes Iperius, a 14th-century Abbot of St-Bertin, is published in Acta Sanctorum.