biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–c.1085)
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| biography:
| Ecclesiastical historian. As a canon at Bremen Cathedral from c.1066, he compiled a monumental Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (History of the Archbishopric of Hamburg, completed c.1075), the most important source for the history, geography, and politics of N Europe for the 8–11th-c. |
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