About Walter of Speyer
Lived 967 – 1027 (aged 59–60). Walter of Speyer was a German poet, catholic priest, writer, catholic bishop and bishop.
Walter of Speyer (967 – 3 December 1027) was a German writer and prelate who served as the bishop of Speyer from 1004.
Life Walter was born in 967. He was taught to read by his parents. He was sent to the cathedral school at Speyer at the age of seven to study under Bishop . Among the authors he studied were Homer (through the Ilias Latina), Martianus Capella, Horace, Persius, Juvenal, Boethius (the Consolation of Philosophy), Statius, Terence, Lucan and Virgil. By 984, he was a subdeacon. The manuscript is now Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14798.
The Munich manuscript also contains another short composition by Walter, called De sizzugiis ('on syzygy'). It consists of a figure made of Balderic's and Walter's intertwined names surrounded by four hexameters forming a square.
A friend of Burchard of Worms, Walter is suspected of having contributed to Burchard's , a collection of canon law.
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German bishop, poet and writer
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Walter of Speyer was born in 967.
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Walter of Speyer died on 3 December 1027 in Speyer.
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Walter of Speyer was a poet, catholic priest, writer, catholic bishop and bishop.
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