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Baugulf list shows) meant that, whilst the majority lived outside the mother convent residing instead in Fulda's dependent houses they would have visited the mother convent on special occasions. On important feast days, monks, prominent churchmen and lay people from the region gathered in Fulda to participate in the festivities. Pilgrims also frequented the shrines of the saints within the church including

56:('Letter on the cultivation of learning') or through the use of charters recording exchange of property that can aid our understand of the monastery's relations with the outside world under his abbacy. Baugulf also commissioned a list of monks (the so-called 'Baugulf list') that help us understand life within the Abbacy. Additionally a list exists of books held in their abbey library and its dependent 105:. In 781, the king granted the monastery the campus of Hünfeld and its surrounding woods 30 km to the north-east of Fulda. Charlemagne furthermore confirmed the conveyance of the mark Rasdorfand the neighboring mark Soisdorf near Hünfeld to Fulda, both former royal properties. The king also granted the monastery two important royal estates in the Middle 150:

With honour he built a sanctuary in the east that admirably was constructed through the efforts of the very energetic man Ratger … Shortly after having accepted the position the third abbot, Ratger, the wise architect, has connected the western sanctuary with the other and has made one church of

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in 779. Baugulf used his aristocratic and political connections to further strengthen the abby's social and economic position. Under his abbacy the area from which the monastery drew its property and recruits extended from the Middle Rhine valley to the Frankish region north of the Middle and Upper

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on behalf of his friend Baugulf. In this letter, Alcuin asked the monks not to condemn their abbot, who due to his illness could not bear the severity of monastic life. Instead of rebuking him for his failures, they should obey and love him like a father, for he enabled the monks to lead a regular

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There has been some debate over Baugulf's reasoning in replacing the previous abbey church. However recent studies have shown that the original church was not as large as first imagined and that the increased size of the community of Fulda (counting at least 364 members in the early 780s, as the

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These lists (with anyalasis of the names and origins of the monks alongside a incomplete record of books the abbey had access to) suggest that Baugulf busied himself to position Fulda firmly in the outside world, as a royal abbey with strong ties with local landowners, and as a center of holy

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was a member of the Eastern Frankish aristocracy with extensive land assets who may have had family ties to Baugulf. This may explain why, once the plot was discovered the Thuringians fled to Fulda claiming they were seeking the protection of

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who had become increasingly popular as Fulda's patron saint. This meant that the church was probably no longer big enough to accommodate the monks and visitors who came to Fulda to celebrate liturgical feasts or to honor the saints.

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aristocrat, and some of his fellows revolted against the king. The reasons behind this revolt are complex but likely involved increased commitment from the Thuringian aristocrats and the expansion of Carolingian style churches.

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continued his plea for concord with a brief treatise on the relations between the senior members of the community and the young monks, and ended with a reference to the votive masses he had written for the monastic community

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Shortly after taking office as the Abbot Baugulf ordered the creation of a list of all monks living in Fulda and its dependent cellae beginning between November 781 and the beginning of January 782 and totaling 364 in all.

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he was uncharacteristically explicit and candied referring directly to a specific problem that troubled that particular community at that time: the sick Baugulf, who due to his illness did not necessarily live up to the

84:, who had been active in the court since the 750s. However It is more likely that they were different members of the same significant aristocratic family. Baugulf's brother also joined the church becoming the 258:. This departure from form may indicate that this was Alcuin giving his opinion on debate within the Frankish church on what the nature of what the role of abbot was and what their duties involved. 195:

fame along with boosting the profile of the Abby and this event may well have helped to inspire Baugulf to further develop the martyr's cult in a new church. This expansion would give

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in fact refers to a major conflict between Baugulf and the abbey community that in the end forced his withdraw from office. The evidence for this proposition is a letter written by

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were generally very broad with careful selection of passages and teachings relevant to the recipient generally drawing heavily on scripture. In his letter to the monks of

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life in all quietness. Moreover, it was not their call to judge him. After all, the abbot would have to justify his conduct before God at the Last Judgement.

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and possibly placed an altar on the martyr's grave furthering the idea that the thuringian rebellion coincided with an increase in the cult of

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Despite his contemporary prominence, the twenty-three years of his abbacy can now only be understood through letters - including the famous

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who was buried there. Baugulf mediated on their behalf arranging them safe passage. However Charlemagne had them blinded and exiled.

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in east Francia. It is likely that he was raised and trained in Fulda. There are claims that he may be Count Baugulf of the

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learning and prayer. These ambitions were also reflected in the new abbey church that was built under his supervision.

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Baugulf was part of the royal aristocratic elite being a member of a noble family that owned property south of the

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The account of their flight, written down close to the event by a scribe in the Annales Nazariani demonstrated

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Baugulf was elected by the monks of Fulda to be the new abbot after the death of the previous abbot

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a more prominent position and increase the Abby's capacity. In the same period Baugulf also asked

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