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Milo of Trier (died 762 or 763) was the son of St. Leudwinus and his successor as Archbishop of Trier and Archbishop of Reims. His great-uncle Saint Basinus had preceded his father as Archbishop of Trier .
Map of the territory of the archdiocese of Trier in 1651. The bishops of Trier were already virtually independent territorial magnates in Merovingian times. In 772 Charlemagne granted Bishop Wiomad complete immunity from the jurisdiction of the ruling count for all the churches and monasteries, as well as villages and castles that belonged to the Church of St. Peter at Trier.
According to Flodoard, Charles Martel drove Archbishop Rigobert from his office and replaced him with a warrior clerk named Milo, afterwards also bishop of Trier. Flodoard also represents Milo as discharging a mission among the Vascones (the ancestors of the Basques), the same people credited with ambushing the rearguard of Charlemagne's army ...
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Trier (/ t r ɪər / TREER, [3] [4] German: ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Tréier [ˈtʀəɪɐ] ⓘ), formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves (/ t r ɛ v / TREV, French: [5] [6]) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany.
Wido is the brother of Milo, Bishop of Trier, and son of Saint Leudwinus, Bishop of Trier. Christian Settipani , in his work on the ancestors of Charlemagne, details an analysis by Anton Halbedel, first issued in 1915, and echoed by historians Joseph Depoin, Maurice Chaume and Szabolcs de Vajay.
It seems that Milo (bishop of Trier) in effect controlled a number of episcopal sees (despite only being a laymen), while Abel remained in office only as suffragan bishop. In 751, Boniface once more addressed a letter to Pope Zacharias, in which he lamented the injustices of lay control over the church, but his erstwhile ambitions to change ...
Serious chronological difficulties are presented by the traditional story of his early life (printed in Patrologia Latina 204, coll. 1005–1072), which runs as follows: Stephen in his twelfth year accompanied his father, the Viscount of Thiers, to Italy, where he was left to be educated by Milo, Archbishop of Benevento; after passing twelve years in this prelate's household, he became ...