Agilfride

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Agilfride

Bishop of Liège
from 769 until his death in 787.

Biography

Agilfride was born in the early 8th-century into a noble

relics of Pharaildis and Bavo of Ghent from Lotharingia to Saint Bavo's Abbey,[5] where they remain present to this day.[6]

Agilfride was said to be well respected at the

Diocese of Liège on multiple occasions, celebrating Easter.[9] According to the Annales Laubacenses, in 774, Agilfride was entrusted by Charlemagne to handle the detention of Desiderius and his wife Ansa.[10]

It has recently been suggested,

Diocese of Osnabrück at the time of establishment.[13]

Agilfride died on 13 December 787 and was succeeded by Gerbald.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ Alternatively spelled Agelfredus, Egelfredus or Eilfried.
  2. historical sources
    .

References

Works cited

  • van den Steen de Jehay, Xavier (1880). La Cathédrale de Saint Lambert à Liège et son chapitre de tréfonciers (in French). Liège: L. Grandmont-Donders. p. 55.
  • Dewez, Louis Dieudonné Joseph (1822). Histoire du pays de Liége (in French). Vol. 1. Liège: Delemer. pp. 11–12.
  • Normand, Théodule Elzéar Xavier (1841). Galerie des saints et des saints qui protégent la Belgique et les Pay-Bas / par M. l'Abbé Normand (in French). Brussels: Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. p. 4.
  • "AGILFRIDUS". prosopographie.eu (in French). Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  • Kaemmerer, Walter (1953), "Agilfrid", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 94; (full text online)
  • Royal Academy of Belgium
    : 125–126.
  • Stadler, John Evangelist; Heim, Franz Joseph (1875). "Pharaldis, S." Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon. 4. Augsburg: B. Schmid: 880–881.
  • "De la fondation de la ville à la cité épiscopale". perso.infonie.be (in French). Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved June 29, 2022.
  • Waitz, Georg (1881). "Annales Lobienses". Monumenta Germaniae Historica. 4. Hanover: 229.
  • Hoogeweg, Hermann (1908). Verzeichnis der Stifter und Klöster Niedersachsens vor der Reformation (in German). Hanover, Leipzig: Hahnsche Buchhandlung. p. 103.
  • Brandi, Karl; Bresslau, Harry; Tangl, Michael (1909). Archiv für Urkundenforschung (in German). Vol. 2. Leipzig: Veit & Company. p. 285.
  • Hettner, Felix; Hansen, Joseph (1882). Westdeutsche Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst (in German). Trier: Verlagsbuchhandlung von Jacob Lintz. p. 158.