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Drogo (17 June 801 – 8 December 855), also known as Dreux or Drogon, was an illegitimate son of Frankish emperor Charlemagne by the concubine Regina. Early life and family. Drogo was born on 17 June 801 at Aachen, Gaul (Aix-La-Chappelle). The Annales Weissemburgenses record Drogo's birth as "802 aut 803 15 Kal Iul".
The sacramentary was written and painted for the personal use of Charlemagne's son Drogo, the Bishop of Metz. Metz was an important bishopric: Charles the Bald was crowned in the Basilica, and Louis the Pious and his illegitimate half-brother Drogo the Bishop are buried there.
DROGO OF METZ. Leading churchman of the carolingian reform; b. June 17, 801; d. Dec. 8, 855. In the aftermath of the revolt of Bernard of Italy, Emperor Louis the Pious forced Drogo, one of charlemagne's illegitimate sons, to receive tonsure (818) and had him interned in a monastery.
Apr 26, 2022 · Genealogy for Drogon, Bishop of Metz and Abbot of Luxeuil Abbey (801 - 855) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
Nov 14, 2019 · Monks writing at Saint-Clément, Metz, over roughly two hundred years produced conflicting images of Bishop Theodoric I (965–84). In earlier texts, he is the monks’ benefactor, in later sources, their foe. Historians have sought to flatten this contrast, partly because of their assumptions about monastic reform.
- Samantha Kahn Herrick
- 2020
The sacramentary was a liturgical book used for prayer during the High Middle Ages, containing the prayers, prefaces, and canons for mass. Drogo (801--55), bishop of Metz, son of Charlemagne, and famous patron of his era, had a gorgeous copy of the sacramentary made in Metz around 845--55.
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After a further spell under a regular abbot, Haldin, in the 820s and 830s, the abbey came under the direct control of Bishop Drogo of Metz from 848 at the latest. 2 Gorze’s status as an episcopal possession, which is stressed in several of the early charters and seen more explicitly in the direct assumption of control by the bishops of Metz ...
