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| | History of Austria |
 | | Tassilo III, who reigned from 748-794, was perhaps the greatest of the later Bavarian dukes, and would be remembered as the last of the Agilolfing dukes. |
 | | Born in 741, the year his father founded the monastary at Niederaltaich, Tassilo III was as much a patron of learning and religion as he was a dynamic, autocratic ruler who forged a sense of Bavarian independence and patriotism, through his opposition to Charlemagne, that has lasted through to the present day. |
 | | Tassilo, whose long hair was shorn, was taken first to the monastery at Saint Goar on the Rhine, west of Frankfurt. |
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