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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 772 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEODULF , See also:

bishop of See also:Orleans, was See also:born about the See also:middle of the 8th See also:century, of a See also:noble See also:family of See also:Gothic extraction, probably in See also:Spain. He found favour at the Frankish See also:court, was made See also:abbot of See also:Fleury and of See also:Saint-Aignan, and in 781. became bishop of Orleans. He was a staunch supporter of See also:Charlemagne's principles of See also:government and educational reforms; he established See also:schools, and by his own See also:literary achievements showed himself a worthy member of the learned circle which graced the Carolingian court. He was likewise a See also:good churchman and an able See also:administrator of his See also:diocese; he encouraged the See also:reformation of the See also:clergy and the monasteries. In 798 he was appointed missis dominicus, and two years later performed so See also:great services for See also:Leo III. as See also:judge in the cause between the See also:pope and his enemies, that he returned from See also:Rome with the See also:pallium. After the See also:death of See also:Alcuin he became the foremost councillor to the See also:king on theological matters: it was he who made, on Charlemagne's See also:request, a collection of the opinions of the fathers on the much-disputed point of the procession of the See also:Holy See also:Ghost. Theodulf maintained his See also:influence a See also:short See also:time after the death of Charlemagne, being sent as escort to Pope See also:Stephen V. who came in 816 to See also:crown See also:Louis the See also:Fair. Later, however, he was accused of having taken See also:part in the See also:conspiracy of See also:Bernard of See also:Italy, and in 818 was deposed from all his dignities and imprisoned in a monastery at See also:Angers. Theodulf asserted his innocence to the end, and no See also:proof of his See also:guilt has come down to us; in fact, from what we know of the bishop's See also:life and See also:political principles we should presuppose his innocence. He died in See also:prison, probably from See also:poison, in 821. Theodulf was called See also:Pindar in the See also:palace school of Charlemagne. Fond of Latin literature, whether See also:Christian or See also:pagan, and a friend of the arts, he was himself one of the best writers of the See also:period.

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prose See also:works include sermons, See also:treatises on vices and on See also:baptism, a See also:penitential, capitularies and exhortations to bishops, priests and See also:judges. His poems are his best See also:work, and afford us a vivid picture of the times. Theodulf was the author of at least part of the hymn for See also:Palm See also:Sunday, the Gloria laus. The See also:complete works of Theodulf are in J. P. See also:Migne, See also:Patrol. See also:Las., vol. See also:toy (See also:Paris, 1851). The best edition of his See also:poetry is that of E. See also:Dummler in the Mon. Germ. Hist. Poetae See also:latini aevi carolini, vol. i.

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Berlin, 1881). See C. Cuissard, The'odulphe See also:eve"que d'Orleans, sa See also:vie et ses oeuvres, (Orleans, 1892) ; and a See also:critical study of the writings by M. Manitius in Neues Archiv der Ges. See also:fur a. deutsche Gesch. xi. (1886).

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