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    200m 220yds Lorsch Abbey    Lorsch Abbey, otherwise the Imperial Abbey of Lorsch (German: Reichsabtei Lorsch; Latin: Laureshamense Monasterium or Laurissa)...
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    Frankfurt. Lorsch is well known for the Lorsch Abbey, which has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Lorsch lies about 5 km west of the Bergstraße...
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    Littleham, Devon, mentioned in 1422. An example of a proprietary church is Lorsch Abbey, founded in 764 by the Frankish Count Cancor and his widowed mother Williswinda...
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  • was Archbishop of Metz and abbot of the Lorsch Abbey. An uncle of Robert was Count Cancor, founder of Lorsch Abbey. Through Robert the Strong he was grandfather...
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    panels from the front cover (Inv.-Nr. 138–1866) It was first recorded in Lorsch Abbey (Germany), for which it was presumably written, and where it was mentioned...
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  • Cancor (died 771) was a Frankish count associated with Lorsch Abbey. He was son of a noble lady Williswinda. As her only known husband before she was widowed...
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  • proposed that this is the same Robert who married Williswinda who founded Lorsch Abbey. This Williswinda had three children: Count Cancor (d. 771). Anselm (killed...
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  • The manuscript was written c. 800 in the Carolingian scriptorium of Lorsch Abbey, where it was rediscovered in 1753. It contains among a variety of grammatical...
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    Louis the German (category Burials at Lorsch Abbey)
    palace in Frankfurt. The following day he was buried by his son Louis in Lorsch Abbey. However, according to Wilfried Hartmann, it cannot be determined with...
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    Abbot Gundeland's "Altenmünster" of Lorsch abbey (765–774), as revealed in the excavations by Frederich Behn. Lorsch was adapted without substantial alteration...
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    the Lorsch Abbey. Furthermore, a Frankish nobleman named Erlulf donated all his holdings in Ober-Roden, Nieder-Roden and Bieber to the Lorsch Abbey on...
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  • Louis the Pious. Other related family includes Cancor, founder of the Lorsch Abbey, his sister Landrada and her son Saint Chrodogang, archbishop of Metz...
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  • about the estates of the imperial abbey of Lorsch have survived dating as far back as the 8th century. The Lorsch Codex compiled in the 12th century...
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    years 780–790, the creation of Lorsch Abbey, the expansion of the Princely Abbey of Corvey, and the foundation of the abbeys of Saint-Riquier and Fulda marked...
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    list may name Quedlinburg, Maria Laach, Erfurt Cathedral, Eberbach, Lorsch Abbey with its remnant 'Torhalle' (gate hall), one of the oldest structures...
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    Carolingian Renaissance of the late 8th and 9th centuries. The gatehouse of Lorsch Abbey (c. 800), in present-day Germany thus displays a system of alternating...
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    1248, canons from All Saints were sent to Lorsch Abbey to turn it into a Premonstratensian monastery; Lorsch was counted as a daughter house of All Saints...
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    Louis the Younger (category Burials at Lorsch Abbey)
    the German and as his father died in 876, Louis buried him in the abbey of Lorsch, in his own territories, in order to emphasise his primacy to his brothers...
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    Franconia and Gilbert of Lorraine in 939, she spent the hostilities at Lorsch Abbey. In 941 she effected a reconciliation between her husband and his mother...
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    Odenwald. In 948, an Arbogast von Franckenstein confirmed to the abbot of Lorsch Abbey in two contracts to "grant defense and shield the carriages travelling...
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    Monastery of St. Michael (Heidelberg) (category Ruined abbeys and monasteries)
    Heiligenberg (Saints' Mountain) in Heidelberg, was a branch of the nearby Lorsch Abbey. The ruined complex that can be seen today was built beginning in 1023...
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  • Lorsch may refer to several different things: Lorsch, a town in the Bergstraße district in Hesse, Germany Lorsch Abbey, former one of the most renowned...
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    state power, that was especially appealing to Holy Roman Emperors. At Lorsch Abbey, the triple-arched Torhalle was built in deliberate imitation of a Roman...
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  • Richbod (category Burials at Lorsch Abbey)
    Richbod would first be documented as a monk in the Lorsch monastery where he worked as a document clerk. After, he would be noticed and picked up as a...
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    responsible for the preservation of the Carolingian Torhalle (gatehouse) at Lorsch Abbey, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The grand duchy's "Law on...
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    is dated to the year 771 in a deed of donation to Lorsch Abbey. Sulmana is mentioned in the Lorsch Codex. The area became known as Neckarsulm in the 16th...
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    domain. In 773, this area became one of Charlemagne’s donations to the Lorsch Abbey, and to protect it, the castle (Starkenburg) was built above it in 1065;...
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  • Aachen Cathedral Lorsch Abbey Weimar Dessau Bernau Schwerin Wilhelmshöhe Berlin Corvey Augustusburg Bremen Quedlinburg Cologne Cathedral Erzgebirge Fagus...
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    Lorsch Abbey gatehouse, c. 800, an example of the Carolingian architectural style—a first, albeit isolated classical movement in architecture....
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    first mentioned in 772 on the occasion of a donation to Lorsch Abbey in a document of the Lorsch Codex. In 1588 and 1598, the town held witch trials, all...
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