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Hincmar (/ ˈ h ɪ ŋ k m ɑːr /; French:; Latin: Hincmarus; 806 – 21 December 882), archbishop of Reims, was a Frankish jurist and theologian, as well as the friend, advisor and propagandist of Charles the Bald.
Hincmar of Reims was an archbishop, canon lawyer, and theologian, the most influential political counselor and churchman of the Carolingian era (9th century). Educated at the abbey of Saint-Denis, Paris, Hincmar was named a royal consultant to King Louis I the Pious in 834.
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Hincmar of Laon. Hincmar, called the Younger, was the Bishop of Laon in the West Frankish Kingdom of Charles the Bald from 858 to 871. His career is remembered by a succession of quarrels with his monarch and his uncle, archbishop Hincmar of Rheims. [1]
HINCMAR OF LAON. Bishop, d. 879. He was the focal point of a jurisdictional struggle among territorial bishop, metropolitan, king, and pope begun under Bp. Rothad of Soissons and his supporters.
Hincmar of Reims wrote a great deal, and often self-referentially. More is knowable about his life than about most other lives in the ninth century, in part because Hincmar inserted himself...
The many works written by Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims are inextricably intertwined with his own life history. Hincmar did not write in a vacuum but in response to events, attempting through these to re-order the world to suit his vision of a Christian society.
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Hincmar’s fierce clash with his nephew Bishop Hincmar of Laon in 869–71 moved the Decretals even more centre stage for, like Rothad, the younger Hincmar used Pseudo-Isidore as his means to escape from his archbishop’s juridical grasp.
