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BRUNO, or BRUN (925–965)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 686 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BRUNO, or BRUN (925–965)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Cologne, third son of the See also:German See also:king, See also:Henry I., the See also:Fowler, by his second wife See also:Matilda, was educated for the See also:church at See also:Utrecht, where he distinguished himself by his studious zeal . In 940 his See also:brother, King See also:Otto, afterwards the See also:emperor Otto the See also:Great, appointed him See also:chancellor, and some years later See also:arch-See also:chaplain, and under his leadership the See also:chancery was reformed and became a training ground for capable administrators . He rendered valuable assistance to his brother Otto in his efforts to suppress the risings which marked the earlier See also:part of his reign, services which were rewarded in 953 when See also:Bruno was made archbishop of Cologne, and about the same See also:time See also:duke of See also:Lorraine . Bruno is chiefly renowned as a See also:scholar and a See also:patron of learning_ He consorted eagerly with learned foreigners, tried to secure a better See also:education for the See also:clergy, and was mainly instrumental in making his brother's See also:court a centre of intellectual See also:life . He built many churches, and, aided by the tendency of the time, sought to purify monastic life . He died at See also:Reims on the 11th of See also:October 965, and was buried in the church of St Pantaleon at Cologne . See Ruotger, " Vita Brunonis archiepiscopi Coloniensis," in the Monumenta German ae Historica, Scriptores, See also:Band iv . (See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826—1892) ; E . See also:Meyer, De Brunone I . A rchiepiscopo Coloniensi . (Berlin, 1867); J . P .

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Pfeiffer, Historisch-Kritische Beitrage zur Geschichte Bruns I . (Cologne, 1870) ; K . See also:Martin, Beitrage zur Geschichte Brunos I. von Koln (See also:Jena, 1878) .

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