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Group: Louisiana (New France)
Location: Gniezno Poznan Poland

…the Abbot of Fulda. Henceforth, the …

Years: 939 - 939

…the Abbot of Fulda.

Henceforth, the great abbeys and episcopal seats that Saint Boniface and his successors had established in southwestern Germany will have a monopoly on temporal office in Franconia, on a par with the counts of lands further west.

They have another virtue in the Ottonian scheme: as celibates, they are less likely to establish hereditary lineages.