biography
pronunciation:
[adalbert]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1000–72)
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| biography:
| German archbishop, born of a noble Saxon family. In 1043 he was appointed Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg. As papal legate to the North (1053), he extended his spiritual sway over Scandinavia, and carried Christianity to the Wends. |
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