Ratgar was a controversial abbot at the famous Benedictine monastery of Fulda during the early ninth century. Ratgar was abbot of the monastery of Fulda...

successful in their grievances against Ratgar, and Louis the Pious sympathized with them. Agreeing that Ratgar's plans were too ambitions for Fulda, and...

is a symbol of the town. The present cathedral stands on the site of the Ratgar Basilica (once the largest basilica north of the Alps), which was the burial...

he had been sent to school and had become a monk. At the insistence of Ratgar, his abbot, he went together with Haimo (later of Halberstadt) to complete...

Metz, architect of Charlemagne's Palace of Aachen with the Palatine Chapel Ratgar of fulda Architecture portal Carolingian art Carolingian Empire Carolingian...

and reciting Psalm 50. After the abbey church was rebuilt to become the Ratgar Basilica (dedicated 791), Boniface's remains were translated to a new grave:...

present-day Germany. He served from 779 to 802 CE and was succeeded by Ratgar. Despite his contemporary prominence, the twenty-three years of his abbacy...

abbot. Finally, in 817, Ratgar was denounced by the monks. Charlemagne's son and successor, Louis the Pious, banished Ratgar and sent two of his delegates...

first instruction from the learned Eigil, Abbot of Fulda, 818-822. Abbot Ratgar (802-817) sent the gifted scholar to Einhard at the court of Charlemagne...

the intellectual reform of his own monastery and his own land. His Abbot, Ratgar, believing that the monks were better employed in building churches than...