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Born in Ireland, he founded a school for boys under the patronage of Charlemagne and figures in the Carolingian Renaissance of learning.. A monk of St. Gall, usually identified as Notker the Stammerer, who wrote a Life of Charlemagne dedicated to Charles the Fat (d. 888), says that Clement with his unnamed companion, both "Scots of Ireland" [1] travelling in the company of traders, arrived on ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. King of the Franks, first Holy Roman Emperor For other uses, see Charlemagne (disambiguation). Charlemagne A denarius of Charlemagne dated c. 812–814 with the inscription KAROLVS IMP AVG (Karolus Imperator Augustus) King of the Franks Reign 9 October 768 – 28 January 814 Coronation 9 ...
St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and has a long history of veneration there. [7] The cult of St Andrew was established on the east coast at Kilrymont by the Pictish kings as early as the eighth century. [8] The shrine, which from the twelfth century was said to have contained the relics of the saint brought to Scotland by Saint Regulus ...
Saint Patrick, woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle. In Christianity, certain deceased Christians are recognized as saints, including some from Ireland.The vast majority of these saints lived during the 4th–10th centuries, the period of early Christian Ireland, when Celtic Christianity produced many missionaries to Great Britain and the European continent.
Margaret of Scotland, died 16 November 1093, granddaughter of Edmund II of England, wife of Malcolm III of Scotland, and mother of King David I of Scotland (see above), canonized in 1251 (Catholic) Mildrith , daughter of Merewalh , king of the Magonsæte , and granddaughter of Eormenred , possibly a king of Kent
The hagiographer Alban Butler wrote in his Lives of the primitive fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints (1798), . St. Erlulph, Bishop and Martyr, Native of Scotland SEVERAL Scottish missionaries passed into the North-western parts of Germany, to sow there the seeds of the faith, at the time when Charlemagne subdued the Saxons.
They are the patron saints of, respectively, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, [1] and Wales. The champions were depicted in Christian art and folklore in Great Britain as heroic warriors, most notably in a 1596 book by Richard Johnson titled Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom .
Moreover, six years after the foundation of Melrose Abbey, King Fergus of Galloway likewise founded a Cistercian abbey from Rievaulx, Dundrennan Abbey, which would become a powerful landowner in both Galloway and Ireland and was known to Francesco Pegolotti as Scotland's richest abbey. [20] The modern ruins of Melrose Abbey. Founded in 1137 ...