Notker Balbulus

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Alias: Notker the Stammerer

Life

Born: c. 840

Died: 6 April 912

Biography . Notker's Liber hymnorum, created between 881 and 887, is an early collection of Sequences, a genre he is traditionally credited with inventing. The hymn Media vita was erroneously attributed to him late in the Middle Ages. He was beatified in 1512. Notker is believed to be the Monk of St. Gall who wrote De Carolo Magno, a life of Charlemagne.

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