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  Regents of Bavaria
Bavaria was originally an independent tribal duchy, but seized to exist when Charlemagne 788 conquered it.
Bavaria was then one of the most important principalities in Germany and several of its dukes were also Holy Roman Emperors.
The duchy of Bavaria was conquered by the Franks 788.
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  Worldroots.com
0, Garibald I of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria
592, Tassilo I of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria
1361 Wittelsbach, Meinhard of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria
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 Odilo of Bavaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Odilo presided over the establishment of bishoprics in Bavaria in 739, when the dioceses of Regensburg, Freising, Passau, und Salzburg were established by St. Boniface, followed in 741 by Würzburg.
In 741, Odilo married Hiltrud, daughter of the Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, but a year later he found himself at war with Martel's sons Carloman and Pepin the Short.
Odilo is accepted as the founder of the abbeys Niederaltaich, Mondsee, and a number of others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Odilo_of_Bavaria   (207 words)

  
 (Luitpold Maximilian Ludwig Karl of BAVARIA - Theodebert Duke, Lower BAVARIA )   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Maximilian I, Duke of BAVARIA (____ - ____)
Tassilo I, Duke of BAVARIA (____ - 609)
Theobaldo I, Duke of BAVARIA (____ - 867)
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 Pippin the Younger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the time of Carloman's retirement, Grifo escaped his imprisonment and fled to Duke Odilo of Bavaria, who was married to Hiltrude, Pippin's sister.
Odilo was forced by Pippin to acknowledge Frankish overlordship, but died soon after (January 18, 748).
Pippin invaded Bavaria and installed Tassilo III as duke under Frankish overlordship.
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 Grifo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
He was lured into a trap by his half-brothers, however, and imprisoned in a monastery.
On his escape in 747, Duke Odilo of Bavaria gave his support to Grifo.
Odilo's infant son, Tassilo, was imposed as a subordinate duke.
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 Odilo Of Bavaria info here at en.88of100c.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Odilo presided familiarized the inauguration of bishoprics in Bavaria in 739, when the dioceses of Regensburg, Freising, Passau, und Salzburg were instituted by St. Boniface, proceeded from in 741 by Würzburg.
Odilo is routine as the pa of the abbeys Niederaltaich, Mondsee, and a numerator of others.
Tassilo III Preceded by: Hugbert of Bavaria Duke of Bavaria 736–748 Succeeded by: Tassilo III Database "http://en.88of100c.info/Odilo_of_Bavaria"
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 Bavarian history
Bavaria is one of the oldest European states.
In exchange for territories surrendered along the Rhine and in compliance with the decision of the Reichstag Extraordinary Commission (Reichsdeputationshauptschluss) in 1803, Bavaria received the bishoprics of Würzburg, Bamberg, Freising and Augsburg, parts of the eparchies of Eichstätt and Passau, twelve abbeys and 15 imperial towns.
Bavaria becomes a kingdom under Max I Joseph; Augsburg and Nuremberg join Bavaria, followed by Bayreuth and Regensburg in 1810.
www.bayern.de /English/Land_and_People/Bavarian_History/welcome2.html   (1899 words)

  
 Odilo of Bavaria Information
Odilo presided over the establishment of bishoprics in Bavaria in 739, when the dioceses of Regensburg, Freising, Passau, und Salzburg were established by St. Boniface, followed in 741 by Würzburg.
In 741, Odilo married Hiltrud, daughter of the Frankish Mayor of the Palace Charles Martel, but a year later he found himself at war with Martel's sons Carloman and Pepin the Short.
After his death, Grifo, half-brother of Carloman and Pepin, sought to establish his own rule in Bavaria, but was defeated by Pepin who installed Odilo's infant son Tassilo III as duke of Bavaria.
www.bookrags.com /wiki/Odilo_of_Bavaria   (176 words)

  
 St. Boniface
Boniface on his return to that country was called into Bavaria by the duke Odilo, to reform several abuses.
By the death of Charles, his eldest son Carloman became mayor and prince of Austrasia, or Lorraine, and that part of Germany which was then subject to France.
He subdued Odilo and Thierry, the former duke of Bavaria, arid the latter of Saxony and made them tributary; but it was his chief aim to consult by peace the happiness of his people, to protect religion, and to cultivate the useful arts.
www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/BONIFACE.htm   (3414 words)

  
 The Franks
They subdued, it is true, the small nations of the Bretons and Basques, but were themselves beaten by the Frankish merchant Samo, who had created a Slavonic kingdom on their eastern confines.
During the first years of their administrations they had to subdue the revolts of the Alamanni, as well as those of their brother Grifon, and of Odilo, Duke of Bavaria.
They conquered all the rebels, but left to Aquitaine and Bavaria their national dukes while they abolished the Duchy of Alamannia.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/franks.html   (5042 words)

  
 40th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Piast of Poland, Duke of Poland "Chosciszko" was born circa 813.
Rudolph von Franconia, Count of Franconia was born circ a820 in Franken, Bavaria.
Rudolph von Bavaria II, Duke of Bavaria was born 827.
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 Tassilo Iii Of Bavaria info here at en.88of100c.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Tassilo III was duke of Bavaria from 748 to 787, the bitter limitation of the residency of the Agilolfings.
Tassilo, before stringy deathly an infant, motivated as a Frankish ward under the tutelage of the Merovingian Mayor of the Palace Pepin the Short (later king) after Tassilo's father, Duke Odilo of Bavaria, had died in 747 & Pepin’s half-brother Grifo had convincing to seize the duchy for himself.
Preceded by: Odilo Duke of Bavaria 748–788 Succeeded by: Charlemagne Database "http://en.88of100c.info/Tassilo_III_of_Bavaria"
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Boniface
Now with the help of Duke Odilo and of the nobles he began the work of reorganization acting entirely according to the instructions of Gregory II.
He examined the orders of the clergy, deposed the obstinate, reordained those whose ordination he found invalid, provided they had erred through ignorance and were willing to submit to authority.
The result of this was a letter to the pope in which Boniface reported his actions in Bavaria and asked advice in various matters.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02656a.htm   (3400 words)

  
 Lynton (Devon)
It gave instructions that only bishops consecated by Boniface were to be tolerated '… and should he by chance find any who have strayed from the true belief or oppose what the dogmas ordain, he is not to be restricted in his actions in any way by you' (IBuchner 1963, 4b:47).
Boniface asserted that in Bavaria 'this people live outside the rule of the Church and have only one [legitimate] bishop' (Schieffer 1954, 183).
Duke Odilo does not appear to have been quite convinced by the policy and activity of Boniface.
www.hagarqim.ndo.co.uk /lynton.htm   (3404 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Virgilius
Pilgrim to the Holy Land in 743, and on the way home stopped in Bavaria and remained there.
Bishop of Salzburg in 765, ordained by Duke Odilo.
Saint Boniface twice accused him of heresy because of his scientific ideas (including a round earth), but this reflected some friction between the style and people of Roman and Celtic origins, and Virgilius was always cleared of the charges.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintv35.htm   (81 words)

  
 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
VIII Century) was born in Ireland and undertook a journey to Europe in 743.
He spent two years at the court of Pepin the Short and travelled to Bavaria to make peace between the French king and Duke Odilo.
Odilo appointed Vergil abbot of St. Peter's, and St. Boniface of Mainz twice complained to Pope Zachary of Vergil's "unorthodox" views.
www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/vergils.html   (219 words)

  
 The Medieval Review 00.05.02
The Lex Baiwariorum, or Law of the Bavarians, is one of the so-called barbarian law codes, that is, one of those normative texts produced between the fifth and the eighth centuries C.E. that rank among the most important sources for exploring European history prior to the Carolingian period.
The Ingolstadt manuscript represents a group of manuscripts that contain the oldest versions of the text and that were produced and used in Bavaria itself.
He chose to rely on a set of later manuscripts produced outside Bavaria that contained the most complete texts and were written in the best Latin--the so-called "Carolingian Emendata" manuscripts.
www.ucl.ac.uk /history/volterra/reviews/bmrvonsc.htm   (1470 words)

  
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The rebellions were defeated, but Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, remained in power.
The only true remaining fact is, that Bavaria, Carantania, and Pannonia were under a single Frankish military command.
The territory of the Kingdom of the Eastern Franks or Francia Orientalis was a confederation composed of the Germanic speaking duchies Bavaria, Swabia, Franconia and Saxony, and of the Slovenian speaking duchy Carantania.
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 PERSONAL on jeff.ostrowski.cc
This division still exists today, as Bavaria is an amalgam of three distinct regions: Franconia in the north, Swabia in the west, and the "real Bavaria" in the south and east.
The Wittelsbach kings of Bavaria were opponents of the Protestant Reformation, and during the sixteenth century Bavaria became an officially, and strictly, Catholic state.
Today Bavaria is known as one of the most culturally traditional and politically conservative pockets of the country.
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 Pepin the Short
That same year, Pépin and Carloman conquered their brother-in-law Duke Odilo of Bavaria.
However, discord in Bavaria continued; and it was not until 757 that Odilo's son (
Pépin's nephew) Duke Tassilo III of Bavaria and the magnates of Bavaria were finally forced to acknowledge themselves as vassals of Pépin the Short.
www.robertsewell.ca /pepin.html   (368 words)

  
 Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 17
Meanwhile, Pepin had died (December 838), and, at the assembly of Worms(May 30, 839), a fourth partition was made, the empire being dividedbetween Lothair and Charles, with Bavaria left in the hands of Louis theGerman.
In Spain he was not so successful: he had been forced to call off hisinvasion in 778, for his troops were needed elsewhere, and anyway theMuslims turned out to be not as disunited as he had been told; it was inthis retreat that Roland died.
In 742 men of the Aquitaine andAlemannia were in revolt; in 743 Odilo, duke of Bavaria, led his men intobattle; in 744 the Saxons rebelled, in 745 Aquitaine, and in 746Alemannia, both the latter for the second time.
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 Duchy of Saxony dgun.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Henry the Lion (1129 – August 6 1195; in German, Heinrich der Löwe) was a member of the Welf dynasty and Duke of Saxony as Henry III since 1142, and Duke of Bavaria as Henry XII since 1156.
He held both duchies until 1180 and was the most powerful of the German princes of his time, until the rival Hohenstaufen dynasty succeeded in isolating him and eventually deprived him of his duchies of Bavaria and Saxony during the reign of his cousin Frederick I and of Frederick's son and successor Henry VI.
He was the son of Henry the Proud, duke of Bavaria and Saxony, who was the son of Duke Welf IV and an heiress of the Billungs, former dukes of Saxony.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Willibald: The Life of St. Boniface
The saint, who had dedicated himself to God's service from his earliest childhood and was therefore ill able to brook the insult offered to his Lord, compelled Duke Odilo and his subjects to forsake their evil, false, and heretical doctrines and put them on their guard against the deceitfulness of immoral priests.
With the consent of Duke Odilo he divided the province of Bavaria into four dioceses and appointed over them four bishops, whom he consecrated for this purpose.
When everything was set in order in Bavaria, a Christian form of life established and the prescriptions of canon law enforced, Boniface returned home to his own diocese.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/willibald-boniface.html   (11320 words)

  
 Page 98
A period of great prosperity for the diocese was the episcopate of Conrad of Gemmingen (1593-1612), but the Swedish army laid it in ruins and burned the see city in 1634.
The secularization of 1802 divided the diocese between Bavaria, Prussia and Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany, until in 1805 the fragments were reunited under Bavarian rule.
Bishop Joseph von Stubenberg (1790-1824), though no longer a temporal magnate, recovered the full extent of his diocese in the Concordat of 1817, and many evidences of spiritual life were shown during the remainder of the nineteenth century.
www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc04/htm/0114=98.htm   (916 words)

  
 St. Virgil Roman Catholic Parish - St. Virgil
Pepin then sent him to the defeated Duke Odilo of Bavaria.
In 774 he held a Bavarian church council which resulted in the establishment of schools throughout Bavaria.
After his death, there was a coup and a new line of rulers came into power over Bavaria.
www.stvirgil.org /virgil.html?id=1091637867   (887 words)

  
 Culpepper Connections' Family Tree - Person Page 8363
In 753 he was killed amid the Alpine passes on his way to join the Lombards, at this time enemies of the Franks as well as of the papacy.
In 742 men of the Aquitaine and Alemannia were in revolt; in 743 Odilo, duke of Bavaria, led his men into battle; in 744 the Saxons rebelled, in 745 Aquitaine, and in 746 Alemannia, both the latter for the second time.
He had to put down revolts in Saxony in 748 and 753 and a rising in Bavaria in 749.
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 Thomas's Glassware Tour --- Mondsee (A)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Archeological investigations in the lake in 1864 found lake-dwellings of a culture of the New Stone Age (about 3600–3300, perhaps 3000 BC), the so-called 'Mondsee culture'.
The Benedictine monastery of Mondsee was founded in AD 748 by Duke Odilo of Bavaria.
Saint Wolfgang stayed at Mondsee in 976/977 and is believed to have founded several churches in this area.
www.thomasgraz.net /glass/gl-024.htm   (192 words)

  
 Wasserburg Niederhaus
Duke Odilo of Bavaria assigned them the Niederhaus as a temporary home.
However, this lore is to handle with care, as it is part of the fable of Lorch.
Therefore the castle is used as a magazine of war equipment and regains military importance as the ‘Danube-Barricade-Fort’.
www.phil.uni-passau.de /histhw/stadtgeschichte/english/niederhaus.html   (644 words)

  
 Knights of St. Virgil
About 743, Pepin sent Virgil with letters of recommendation to his brother-in- law, Duke Odilo of Bavaria, who, c.
For 40 years he labored to convert Teutons and Slavs, founded monasteries, churches, and schools.
(In 774, the council of Bavaria issued its first pronouncement on the establishment of schools.)
www.kykofc.com /kentucky/iack/virgil.htm   (361 words)

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