Richulf


Richulf (born about 750 AD, died on August 9, 813) - Archbishop of Mainz since 787. Curriculum vitae

Richulf came from a powerful Frankish family from Wetterau. We know from Alcuin's letters that he was his pupil at the court school, where he was nicknamed Flavius ​​Damoetas (from the works of Virgil). In 780 he became a deacon in Kastel. However, he remained at the court of Charlemagne, for whom he sent Tassilon III to the Duke of Bavaria in 781. In 787 he was ordained in Fritzlar as Archbishop of Mainz, but in the following years he remained mainly at the court of King Charles the Great; participated in his expedition against the Saxons in 794 and on a trip to Rome in 800. He was the founder of the Benedictine monastery of Saint. Albana in Mainz - built here a church larger than the then Mogun cathedral, where one of the wives of Charles the Great Fastrad was buried, and in 813 Richulf was the head of the important synod on the reform of the Church. Sam was also buried there. Bibliography Authoritative control (person):

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