About Folcuin of Lobbes
Lived 930 – 990 (aged 59–60). Folcuin of Lobbes was a French writer and religious.
Folcuin ( 935 – 16 September 990) was a monk at the abbey of Saint-Bertin, where he was a deacon and archivist, and later abbot of Lobbes. He wrote histories of the abbots of both his monasteries.
The Gesta abbatum Sithiensium (Deeds of the Abbots of Saint-Bertin) is a combination of chronicle and cartulary. Folcuin incorporates numerous charters from the abbey's archives into his historical narrative, which begins with the abbey's foundation around 650 and continues to 961/2. It was composed at the request of the lay abbot, Adalolf.
Folcuin also wrote the Gesta abbatum Lobiensium (Deeds of the Abbots of Lobbes).
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Folcuin of Lobbes was born in 930.
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Folcuin of Lobbes died on 16 December 990.
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Folcuin of Lobbes was a writer and religious.
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Folcuin of Lobbes was French.
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