Notker the Stammerer

Notker, called Balbulus, 'the Stammerer', because of a lifelong stutter, was born around 840 near the Abbey of St Gall, in what is now Switzerland, into a wealthy landowning family. He was educated at the abbey alongside the monks Tuotilo and Ratpert, and all three became composers, making St Gall an important center of early medieval music. Notker spent his life there as a Benedictine monk, librarian and renowned teacher; one of his pupils, Solomon III, became bishop of Constance. He also sometimes advised the emperor Charles the Fat, a great-grandson of Charlemagne. Notker is credited with two major works. His Liber Hymnorum is an important collection of early musical sequences, poems sung during the Mass. The Deeds of Charlemagne, written for Charles the Fat in the 880s, is a collection of lively anecdotes about the great emperor, his court and his wars, some of them legendary, which has been read alongside Einhard's earlier biography ever since. He also wrote a life of St Gall and a martyrology. Although venerated at St Gall, he was never formally canonized. He died there in 912.

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Faith: Benedictine monk of St Gall; venerated as Blessed or as a saint. Source: Wikipedia