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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30596" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_30596" /> == | ||
<p> was the brother of king Pepin, and son of [[Charles]] Martel. | <p> was the brother of king Pepin, and son of [[Charles]] Martel. On the death of his father he succeeded to the government of Australia, Thuringia, Bavaria, and the country of the Alemanni; or Germans. In 742 he assembled a council at some place (name unknown) in Germany, founded the celebrated monastery of Fulda, endowed other religious houses, and finally resigned his kingdom, and became a monk in a convent which he had built in honor of St. Silvester, on Mount Soracte, near Rome. [[Thence]] he went to [[Monte]] Cassino, where he obtained no higher office than that of assistant cool. He was sent into France, by his abbot, on business, and died at [[Vienne]] in 755. He is by some esteemed as a saint (Baillet, Aug. 17). See Landon, Eccles. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. G neral, s.v. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_70284" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_70284" /> == | ||
