The Abbey of Saint Gall (German: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland...
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monastery of Luxeuil in the Vosges. Gall is known as a representative of the Irish monastic tradition. The Abbey of Saint Gall in the city of Saint Gallen...
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abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall. The planned church was intended to hold the relics of the monastery's founder and namesake, the hermit Saint Gall. The...
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Notker the Stammerer (redirect from The Monk of Saint Gall)
Notker Balbulus, or simply Notker, was a Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall active as a composer, poet and scholar. Described as "a significant...
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The abbey library of Saint Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1983, the...
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St. Gall may refer to: Saint Gall, Irish missionary in the German Alps Abbey of Saint Gall, Switzerland Sankt Gallen (disambiguation), various German-language...
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Switzerland Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland Abbey of Saint Gall, Switzerland Sankt Gallen, Styria, municipality in Austria St. Gall (disambiguation) Gallen...
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Toggenburg War (redirect from Second Battle of Villmergen)
cantons" and the Imperial Abbey of Saint Gall fought the Protestant cantons of Bern and Zürich as well as the abbatial subjects of Toggenburg. The conflict...
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St. Gallen (redirect from Imperial City of St Gall)
the Abbey of Saint Gall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Abbey's renowned library contains books from the 9th century. The official language of St. Gallen...
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The Saint-Gall Cantatorium is the earliest surviving cantatorium of Gregorian chant. It was produced around 922–926 in the Abbey of Saint Gall and is still...
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Cloister (section History of the cloister)
perfect square, against the south flank of the new church, precisely as in the plan of the 8th-century Abbey of Saint Gall (Horn 1973:44, figs 43ab, 45). When...
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of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1077 to about 1083. Nothing is known about his life before and after his work in Saint Gall. In the oldest lists of abbots...
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Ekkehard IV (category Year of birth uncertain)
Ekkehard IV (c. 980 – c. 1056) was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall and the author of the Casus sancti Galli and Liber Benedictionum. According to the...
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in several places, in the Reichenau Abbey up to 939 (continued by Hermannus Contractus), in Abbey of Saint Gall up to 926. The St. Gallen version was...
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abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall. Hartmann was elected abbot in 922. He was the successor to Abbot Solomon III, following one year of interregnum...
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Isambart (category Elder House of Welf)
donations to the Abbey of Saint Gall. He was Greve, Comte, of Altorf and Master of the Palace. His wife was Thiedrada (Thietrate), of Carolingian origin...
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Fraxinetum (category Geography of Var (department))
Rhône Valley, into Piedmont and as far as the Abbey of Saint Gall. Their main business was slave-raiding of Europeans for export to Islamic markets. For...
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of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 984 to 990. Not much is known about Ulrich. In 956/57, he possibly held the office of Hospitarius. He became abbot of...
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sites were added to the list in 1983: Old City of Berne, Abbey of Saint Gall, and Benedictine Abbey of St. John at Müstair. The most recent addition were...
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Alaholfings (category Noble families of the Holy Roman Empire)
needed] founded Marchtal Abbey as a proprietary monastery in the mid-8th century. His descendants gave it to the Abbey of Saint Gall in 776. In modern scholarship...
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St. Gallen Cathedral (category Abbey of Saint Gall)
(Collegiate Church of St. Gall and Otmar) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Once part of the Abbey of St. Gall, it has been...
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Ulrich II (died 9 December 1076) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 1072 to 1076. Abbot Nortpert appointed the provost Ulrich as his successor when...
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Wiborada (redirect from Saint Wiborada)
Hatto to decide to become a monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall, a decision which Wiborada supported. After the death of their parents, Wiborada joined Hatto...
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Bernard (German: Bernhard; died 9 June ?) was abbot of the benedictine Abbey of Saint Gall from 883 until 890. Bernhard was in all likelihood born from...
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Appenzell (redirect from Canton of Appenzell)
estate) of the abbot'. This refers to the Abbey of St. Gall, which exerted a great influence on the area. By the middle of the 11th century the abbots of St...
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Wolfleoz (redirect from Wolfleoz of Konstanz)
was bishop of the Bishopric of Konstanz from 811 to 838/39 and abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall from 812 to 816. Wolfleoz became Bishop of Konstanz after...
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existed at the Abbey of Saint Gall, the Abbey of Saint Martial and Saint Emmeram's Abbey, while the 11th century saw the development of staff notation...
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after 905 in Saint Gall) was abbot of the Abbey of Saint Gall. Hartmut (Old High German "of powerful courage and spirit"), was monk, pupil of Rabanus Maurus...
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originating in a battle song of the year 912 by Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall: however, the Synod of Cologne declared in 1316 no...
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Ratpert of St Gallen (c. 855 - c. 911) was a scholar, writer, chronicler and poet at the Abbey of Saint Gall. He wrote in Medieval Latin and in Old High...
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