LC control no. | nr 97032742 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Wigbert, of Hersfeld, Saint, -approximately 746 |
Variant(s) | Wigbert, of Hersfeld, Saint, d. ca. 746 Wigbertus, Saint, -approximately 746 |
Death date | 0746~ |
Found in | L'opera agiografica di Lupo di FerrieĢres, 1995: p. 21 ( ... sancti Wigberti abbatis Friteslariensis; d. 747; of English descent; one of the disciples of St. Boniface in the evangelization of Germany; became abbot of Fritzlar) New Cath. enc. (Wigbert of Hersfeld, St., Anglo-Saxon abbot and missionary in Germany; d. ca. 746 in Fritzlar; was abbot of the monastery in Fritzlar, and founded the monastery of Ohrdruf in Thuringia; his relics were transferred to the abbey of Hersfeld) |