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unusual facts about Abbot of Farfa



Anselm of Farfa

Anselm (Zelmo) was the Abbot of Farfa between 881 and 883, succeeding John I.

Ingoald

Ingoald (died 830) was the Abbot of Farfa from 815, succeeding Benedict.

Lucerius

Lucerius (died 740) was the third Abbot of Farfa, succeeding Aunepert in 724 at the latest.

Peter of Farfa

Peter (died ca. 919) was the long-serving Abbot of Farfa from about 890 until his death, replacing the interim abbot Vitalis.


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Latino Orsini

In 1454 the Archbishopric of Bari was conferred upon him, which made it possible for him to take up his residence in Rome, the See of Trani being given to his brother, John Orsini, Abbot of Farfa.

Pope Gregory IV

In a court run by a bishop and a representative of the emperor, and in the presence of Gregory, Ingoald, the Abbot of Farfa, claimed that the Frankish emperors had granted them the lands, and that Popes Adrian I and Leo III had taken possession of the land illegally.

Ptolemy I of Tusculum

Peter Pisanus, in his Vita Paschalis II refers to Ptolemy and the abbot of Farfa as the allies of the emperor in the same way that the Saints Peter and Paul were the allies of the pope.