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FULK (d. goo)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 294 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FULK (d. goo) , See also:archbishop of See also:Reims, and See also:partisan of See also:Charles the See also:Simple in his struggle with See also:Odo, See also:count of See also:Paris, was elected to the see as archbishop in 883 upon the See also:death of See also:Hincmar. In 887 he was engaged in a struggle with the See also:Normans who invaded his territories. Upon the deposition of Charles the See also:Fat he sided with Charles the Simple in his contest for the See also:West Frankish dominions against Count Odo of Paris, and crowned him See also:king in his own See also:metropolitan See also:church at Reims after most of the nobles had gone over to Odo (893). Upon the death of Odo he succeeded in having Charles recognized as king by a See also:majority of the West Frankish See also:nobility. In 892 he obtained See also:special privileges for his See also:province from See also:Pope See also:Formosus,' who promised that thereafter, when the archbishopric became vacant, the revenues should not be enjoyed by anyone while the vacancy existed, but should be reserved for the new See also:incumbent, provided the See also:election took See also:place within the canonical limit of three months. From 898 until his death he held the See also:office of See also:chancellor, which for some See also:time afterwards was regularly filled by the archbishop of Reims. In his efforts to keep the wealthy abbeys and benefices of the church out of the hands of the nobles, he incurred the hatred of See also:Baldwin, count of See also:Flanders, who secured his assassination - on the 17th of See also:June goo, a See also:crime which the weak Carolingian monarch See also:left unpunished. Fulk left some letters, which are collected in See also:Migne, Patrologia See also:Latina. vol. cxxxi. 11-14.

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