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to the cathedral which now bears the saint's name. In 787, he tried unsuccessfully to assert episcopal control over Fulda. His successor in Würzburg was the obscure Liuttrit (800–803).
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The first reference to Berowulf as bishop comes from April 769. Prior to his election he was a monk from the local monastery of Sankt Andreas. As bishop, he introduced the rule of
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Lowe, Elias Avery (1928). "An Eighth-Century List of Books in a Bodleian MS. from Würzburg and Its Probable Relation to the Laudian Acts".
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hand around 800. A later addition, in a German hand, notes five books which had been lent to
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from 768 or 769 until his death. Since the 11th century, his name has appeared as
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to be educated at the school Berowulf had established. He also grew the
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In 779 he was commissioned to establish a new missionary diocese, the
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The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751–987
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Index

Berowelf
Beornwulf of Mercia

bishop of Würzburg
Megingoz
Chrodegang
Boniface
Charlemagne
Slavs
Main
bishopric of Paderborn
Hathumar
Badurad
Würzburg Cathedral
scriptorium
Anglo-Saxon
Holzkirchen
Fulda Abbey
De litteris colendis
Saint Kilian






Engel 1955


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