Teutsind
Teutsind (fl. 735–742) was a
Charles Martel appointed him to these offices,[1] during his tenure of which Teutsind distinguished himself by conveying abbey properties to members of the local nobility in order to ensure their support for the king.[3]
He is generally considered a poor abbot,[3][4] in that he pursued the king's political agenda to the detriment of the abbeys in his charge, running down their finances and offending benefactors and his fellow clerics.[3][4]
References
- ^ a b W Davies and P Fouracre (2002): Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press), pp.42-43
- ^ Susan Wood, 2006: The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (OUP), p.21.
- ^ ISBN 2-7373-1117-9)
- ^ a b Ian Wood, Graham Loud, John Taylor (1991): Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to John Taylor (A&C Black), p.5
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