Raginfred (french: Rainfroi; died 30 April 906 or 907) was an
archbishop of Vienne
The Archbishopric of Vienne, named after its episcopal seat in Vienne in the Isère département of southern France, was a metropolitan Roman Catholic archdiocese. It is now part of the Archdiocese of Lyon.
History
The legend according to whic ...
in France at the turn of the 9th-10th centuries.
Life
There are no sources that throw any light on the origins of Raginfred but as Charvet (1761) suggested, he must have belonged to an illustrious family to be able to gain the archiepiscopal see of Vienne.
[Claude Charvet, ''Histoire de la sainte église de Vienne'', 1761, Chez C. Cizeron, pp. 239-246.]
Raginfred was consecrated as archbishop on 28 January 899 by Arnaud,
archbishop of Embrun
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Embrun was located in southeastern France, in the mountains of the Maritime Alps, on a route that led from Gap by way of Briançon to Turin. It had as suffragans the Diocese of Digne, Diocese of Antibes and Gras ...
[René Poupardin, ''Le Royaume de Provence sous les Carolingiens, 855-933'', Paris, Librairie Émile Bouillon, 1901, p. 158.] in the presence of many prelates, including the bishops of
Maurienne
Maurienne ( frp, Môrièna) is one of the provinces of France, provinces of Savoy, corresponding to the arrondissement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in France. It is also the original name of the capital of the province, now Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne.
...
,
Grenoble,
Belley,
Digne
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,
Toulon
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, and
Valence,
and counts of the region.
[René Poupardin, ''Le Royaume de Provence sous les Carolingiens, 855-933'', Paris, Librairie Émile Bouillon, 1901, pp. 251-254, Appendix 8]
He received the title of "Head of the Notaries of the Sacred Palace" ( la, Sacri palatii nostri notaiorum summus) and obtained the functions of
archchancellor of King
Louis the Blind and in that capacity accompanied him in 900 to
Italy
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.
He received several diplomas (in the sense of grants or charters) from the king between 902 and 905, mentioned with other documents in the ''Regeste dauphinois''.
Raginfred last appears in documents on 26 October 905. The year of his death is not known exactly. According to the Catalogue of Bishops, he died on "30 April in the ninth year of his episcopate",
which may refer to either 906 or 907.
His body was buried in the
abbey church of St. Peter's in Vienne.
References
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Archbishops of Vienne
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10th-century French archbishops
9th-century French archbishops