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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HATTO I . (c. 850–913), See also:

archbishop of See also:Mainz, belonged to a Swabian See also:family, and was probably educated at the monastery of See also:Reichenau, of which be became See also:abbot in 888. He soon became known to the See also:German See also:king, See also:Arnulf, who appointed him See also:arch-See also:bishop of Mainz in 891; and he became such a trustworthy and confidential counsellor that he was popularly called " the See also:heart of the king." He presided over the important See also:synod at Tribur in 895, and accompanied the king to See also:Italy in 894 and 895, where he was received with See also:great favour by See also:Pope See also:Formosus. In 899, when Arnulf died, Hatto became See also:regent of See also:Germany, and See also:guardian of the See also:young king, See also:Louis the See also:Child, whose authority he compelled Zwentibold, king of See also:Lorraine, an illegitimate son of Arnulf, to recognize. During these years he did not neglect his own interests, for in 896 he secured for himself the See also:abbey of See also:Ellwangen and in 898 that of Lorsch. He assisted the Franconian family of the Conradines in its See also:feud with the Babenbergs, and was accused of betraying See also:Adalbert, See also:count of See also:Babenberg, to See also:death. He retained his See also:influence during the whole of the reign of Louis; and on the king's death in 911 was prominent in securing the See also:election of See also:Conrad, See also:duke of See also:Franconia, to the vacant See also:throne. When trouble arose between Conrad and See also:Henry, duke of See also:Saxony, afterwards King Henry the See also:Fowler, the attitude of Conrad was ascribed by the See also:Saxons to the influence of Hatto, who wished to prevent Henry from securing authority in Thuringia, where the see of Mainz had extensive possessions. He was accused of complicity in a See also:plot to See also:murder Duke Henry, who in return ravaged the archiepiscopal lands in Saxony and Thuringia. He died on the 15th of May 913, one tradition saying he was struck by See also:lightning, and another that he was thrown alive by the See also:devil into the See also:crater of See also:Mount See also:Etna. His memory was See also:long regarded in Saxony with great abhorrence, and stories of See also:cruelty and treachery gathered See also:round his name.

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legend of the See also:Mouse See also:Tower at See also:Bingen is connected with Hatto II., who was archbishop of Mainz from 968 to 970. This Hatto built . the See also:church of St See also:George on the See also:island of Reichenau, was generous to the see of Mainz and to the abbeys of See also:Fulda and Reichenau, and was a See also:patron of the chronicler Regino, abbot of Prum. See E. See also:Dummler, Geschichte See also:des ostfrankischen Reichs (See also:Leipzig, 1887–1888) ; G. See also:Phillips, See also:Die See also:grosse Synode von Tribur (See also:Vienna, 1865) ; .l. Heidemann, Hatto I., Erzbischof von Mainz (See also:Berlin, 1865) ; G. Waltz, Jahrbiicher der deutschen Geschichte unter Heinrich I. (Berlin and Leipzig, 1863) ; and J. F. See also:Bohmer, Regesta archiepiscoporum Maguntinensium, edited by C. Will (See also:Innsbruck, 1877–1886).

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