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FLODOARD (894-966)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 524 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FLODOARD (894-966) , See also:French chronicler, was See also:born at See also:Epernay, and educated at See also:Reims in the See also:cathedral school which had been established by See also:Archbishop Fulcon (822-900). As See also:canon of Reims, and favourite of the archbishops Herivaeus (d. 922) and Seulfus (d. 925), he occupied while still See also:young an important position at the archiepiscopal See also:court, but was twice deprived of his benefices by Heribert, See also:count of See also:Vermandois, on See also:account of his steady opposition to the See also:election of the count's See also:infant son to the archbishopric. Upon the final See also:triumph of Archbishop Artold in 947, Flodoard became for a See also:time his See also:chief adviser, but withdrew to a monastery in 952, and spent the remaining years of his See also:life in See also:literary and devotional See also:work. His See also:history of the cathedral See also:church at Reims (Hisloria Remensis Ecclesiae) is one of the most remarkable productions of the loth See also:century. Flodoard had been given See also:charge of the episcopal archives, and constructed his history out of the See also:original texts, which he generally reproduces in full; the documents for the See also:period of See also:Hincmar being especially valuable. The Annales which Flodoard wrote See also:year by year from 919 to 966 are doubly important, by See also:reason of the author's honesty and the central position of Reims in See also:European affairs in his time. Flodoard's poetical See also:works are of hardly less See also:historical See also:interest. The See also:long poem celebrating the triumph of See also:Christ and His See also:saints was called forth by the favour shown him by See also:Pope See also:Leo VII., during whose pontificate he visited See also:Rome, and he devotes fourteen books to the history of the popes. Flodoard's works were published in full by J. P.

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Migne (Patrologia See also:Latina, vol. 135) ; a See also:modern edition of the Annales is the one edited by P. Lauer (See also:Paris, 1906). For bibliography see A. See also:Molinier, See also:Sources de l'histoire de See also:France (No.

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