Saint Walla of Bobbio

• Preferred Name: Saint Walla of Bobbio^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: Abbé de Corbie (824-836), Abbé de Bobbio (836)
  
• Religion: 814 in Corbie, Somme, Picardie, France at LATI: N9.913 LONG: E0.4915 with note: Description: monk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wala_of_Corbie
  
• Birth: BET 754 AND 772 in Vaux-en-Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France at LATI: N9.8231 LONG: E0.1403
  
• Burial: AFT 31 AUG 836 in Abbey of Saint Colombano, Bobbio, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy at LATI: N4.7708 LONG: E0.3857
  
• FSID: MSCJ-F9Q
  
• Death: 31 AUG 836 in Bobbio, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy at LATI: N4.7715 LONG: E0.386 with note: .
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Comte de Saxe Abbé de Corbie (826)
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wala of Corbie
  
  Il épousa sa cousine Chrotlinde (Rodlinde, Rolande), fille de Guillaume de Gellone, comte de Toulouse et petit-fils par sa mère de Charles Martel. Ce n'est pas clairement indiqué par les sources contemporaines, mais Paschase Radbert, le biographe et confident de Wala, écrivit que :
  
  De ce mariage naquit probablement Bertrude, signalée (« Bertrut, fille du comte Wallo ») dans le nécrologe de Saint-Germain-des-Prés aux côtés de Chrotlinde5.
  
  Wala was born as a son of a Saxon woman and Count Bernard who was a brother of Pepin the Third and a natural son of Charles Martel. Wala was the first cousin of Charlemagne and a half brother of Adalard the Younger, who served as abbot of Corbie until 826. Wala also had a full brother named Bernarius, and two sisters Gundrada and Theodrada, abbess of Notre-Dame de Soissons. In Wala’s early years, he had been brought up in the school of the Royal Palace with his brother Adalard the Younger. At Court, both Wala and his brother Adalard were known as being honest, honorable and zealous. As a youth, Wala incurred the temporary disapproval of his cousin Charles. In 792, it has been supposed that he was in some way involved with the conspiracy of Charles son’, Pepin the hunchback. As a result, he was banned from court and forced to live under the close watch of some of the loyal magnates. During this time, it is presumed that he married daughter of William, count of Toulouse, Rothlindis, and Wala became a brother in-law of Bernard of Barcelona. He was widowed before he became a monk in 814. In his early years, Wala regained royal favor. During Charlemagne’s rule, he rose to become the Emperor’s second-in-command. Charlemagne appears to have appointed his cousin Wala to oversee administration on Saxony, just as he had elevated his brother in law Gerold in Bavaria. During his rule Charlemagne appears to have relied confidently on his capable cousins, including Adalard, Bernarius and Wala.
  According to Vita Walae, the Epitaphium Arsenii written by Paschasius Radbertus, Walla fully embraced the life as a monk. McKitterick
  According to Radbertus, Wala was content with the ordinary clothes and shoes of the region, and he considered it unnecessary that a monk should dress more smartly than the conprovintiales amongst whom he lived. He also strived to be loved rather than feared.
  
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  Er wurde in der Hofschule erzogen und dann einer der engsten Berater Karls. Als Heerführer im unterworfenen Sachsen führte er Krieg gegen die Abodriten; 812 wurde er nach Italien zur Abwehr der Sarazenen geschickt; weil er sich für König Bernhard von Italien stark machte, fiel er nach dem Regierungsantritt von Kaiser Ludwig dem Frommen in Ungnade, seine Karriere fand ein plötzliches Ende. Er wurde Benediktinermönch in Corbie, nachdem er schon 815 zusammen mit seinem Bruder beim heutigen Ort Neuhaus im Solling als Tochterkloster von Corbie das Kloster gestiftet hatte, das 822 durch Adalhard seinen heutigen Platz in Corvey bei Höxter erhielt. Auch das Damenstift Herford wurde von den Brüdern als Bildungsstätte für adlige Frauen reorganisiert.
  
  823 wurde Wala politischer Berater des Mitkaisers Lothar I., wahrscheinlich war er auch der geistige Urheber der Constitutio Romana von 824, mit der Lothar I. seine Herrschaft über Italien durch eine stärkere Kontrolle des Kirchenstaates zu erweitern suchte. 826 folgte er seinem Bruder Adalhard als Abt von Corbie nach. Er unterstützte die kirchlichen Reformen und die Mission von Ansgar, war Verfechter der Reichseinheit in den Bruderkriegen zwischen den Kaisern Ludwig und Lothar und prangerte mit Freimut die Missstände am Kaiserhof von Ludwig dem Frommen an, der ihn 830 verbannte.
  
  833 wurde Wala Abt in Bobbio. Seine Biographie aus der Feder des Abtes von Corbie, Paschasius Ratbertus, ist zugleich ein Zeugnis für die schwere Krise von Herrschaft und Kirche unter Ludwig dem Frommen.
  
  Bernard, son of Charles by 1st mistress Chrothais
  
  BERNARD, illegitimate son of CHARLES "Martel" & his mistress Chrothais --- (before 732-787). The Genealogica Arnulfi Comitis names (in order) "Pipinum, Karlomannum, Griphonem et Bernardum" as sons
  
  === Beruf ===
  Pfalzgraf von Kenneermerland. Abt von Corvey
  
  === angaben zu Wala ===
  Abt von Corvey,aka Walacher I. von Corvey.vom Kennemerlannd. (de St. Quentin)
  
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  === gründete mit seinem Bruder Adalhard 822 ===
  gründete mit seinem Bruder Adalhard 822 Corvey bei Höxter, 826 Abt v. Corbie, geriet in Konflikt mit Kg Ludwig dem Frommen, der ihn 830 verbannte, 833 Abt in Bobbio
  
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  === https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wala_of_Corbie ===
  Dawson, Christopher (1952). The Making of Europe: An Intoroduction to the History of European Unity. Sheed & Ward.Lorenz Weinrich (1963). Wala – Graf, Mönch und Rebell. Lübeck and Hamburg (Karolingische Studien Heft 386)Duckett, Eleanor (1969). Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century. University of Michigan Press.
  
  === Still Living. ===
  Still Living.
  
  === #Générale# Abbé de Bobbio. ===
  #Générale# Abbé de Bobbio.

• m. 811 in Vermandois Normandy, France

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bernie Bernard St Quentin -
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2. Title: St Walla de Corbie Abbot de Bobbio (754-836), Find A Grave Index
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   Note: Name: St Walla de Corbie Abbot de Bobbio Gender: Male Birth Date: 0754 Birth Place: Vaux-en-Vermandois, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France Death Date: 31 Aug 0836 Death Place: Bebbio, Provincia di Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Cemetery: Abbey of Saint Colombano Burial or Cremation Place: Bobbio, Provincia di Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy he married daughter of William, count of Toulouse, Rothlindis. He was widowed before he became a monk in 814. Children: Crothais Rothaide de Bobbio Parents: Bernard duc de St Quentin d'Herstal (724–784) V de Laon d'Herstal (722 – unknown)
   
3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Bernie Bernard St Quentin - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Wala de Bobbio
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   Note: Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Wala de Bobbio Published information: Family genealogies: male Published information: Family genealogies: birth: 0754; Normandie, France Published information: Family genealogies: death: 31 August 0836; Bobbio, Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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