Wenilo (archbishop of Rouen)

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Wenilo [lower-alpha 1] (died 18 September 869) [2] was the archbishop of Rouen from 858. He was an appointee of King Charles the Bald. [3]

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Wenilo assisted Ragenarius, bishop of Amiens, at a regional synod in Quierzy-sur-Oise in 848. [2] He may have been a cleric in the king's palace prior to his appointment to Rouen in 858. [3] He attended the council at Savonnières in 859, and was one of the judges in the case of treason brought against Wenilo, archbishop of Sens. He also attended the councils held at Aachen in 859 and 861 to deal with the divorce of King Lothair II and Teutberga. [2]

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Wenilo was the archbishop of Sens from 836 or 837. Prior to becoming bishop, Wenilo was a palatine chaplain. As bishop, he was one of the leading men in Aquitaine and crowned Charles the Bald king in 848, definitively uniting Aquitaine with West Francia. In 858, he supported the East Frankish invasion and was denounced as a traitor by the king. He reconciled the next year, and retained his office until his death. Nevertheless, Wenilo passed into legend as Ganelon, the archvillain of the Matter of France, his name a byword for "traitor".

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In 860, Wenilo was forced to flee Rouen in the face of Viking attacks and take refuge in Andely, where he owned a property. [4] He was present at the council of Pîtres in 864, where Charles the Bald gave his famous decree concerning the defence of the realm against the Vikings. [2] Archbishop Hincmar of Reims wrote him a letter concerning the construction of a fortified bridge over the Seine at Pîtres. [1]

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Wenilo attended the church council at Soissons on 18 August 866. [2] His influence, along with that of Gombert of Évreux and Pardulus of Laon, gained for the abbey of La Croix-Saint-Leufroy in the Drouais many royal gifts before 858. [5] Between 858 and 862 he also got donations for Thiverny in the Beauvaisis so that it could serve as a refuge for monks. [5]

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Notes
  1. ↑ There are many variants of his name in French: Wenilon, Vénilon, Guenelon and Ganelon [1]
Citations
  1. 1 2 Bauduin 2004, p. 108.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Pommeraye 1667, pp. 207–15.
  3. 1 2 Nelson 1992, p. 193.
  4. ↑ Neveux 2009, p. 69.
  5. 1 2 Bauduin 2004, pp. 122–26.
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Preceded by
Paul 		Archbishop of Rouen
858–869 		Succeeded by
Adalard
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