Teutsind ( fl. 735–742) was a Frankish cleric, abbot of St Martin, Tours, and of Fontenelle Abbey. [1] [2]
Charles Martel appointed him to these offices, [1] during his tenure of which Teutsind distinguished himself by conveying abbey properties to members of the local nobility in order to ensure their support for the king. [3]
He is generally considered a poor abbot, [3] [4] in that he pursued the king's political agenda to the detriment of the abbeys in his charge, running down their finances and offending benefactors and his fellow clerics. [3] [4]
References
- ^ a b W Davies and P Fouracre (2002): Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press), pp.42-43
- ^ Susan Wood, 2006: The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West ( OUP), p.21.
- ^ a b c E Deniaux, C Lorren, P Bauduin and T Jarry, 2002: La Normandie avant les Normands: de la conquête romaine à l’arrivée des Vikings (Rennes: Éditions Ouest-France, coll. "Université"), p.285 ( ISBN 2-7373-1117-9)
- ^ a b Ian Wood, Graham Loud, John Taylor (1991): Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to John Taylor (A&C Black), p.5
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