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Alcuin — The master of Charlemagne’s palace school, abbot of Saint-Martin of Tours, c. 735–804
A Northumbrian cleric trained at the school of York, met by Charlemagne at Parma in 781, he directed the palace school, taught the king and his sons, fought Adoptionism at Frankfurt and pleaded that Saxon pagans should no longer be killed for refusing baptism. Abbot of Saint-Martin of Tours in 796, he trained there the copyists of the Carolingian renaissance. (Editorial synthesis)
Alcuin was born around 735 (Julian calendar). (source: Larousse)
Alcuin died on 19 May 804 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Alcuin died in Tours. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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