Sichard ( la, Sichardus; it, Sicardo) was a 9th century Italian monk. He was the

Abbot of Farfa Farfa Abbey ( it, Abbazia di Farfa) is a territorial abbey in northern Lazio, central Italy. In the Middle Ages it was one of the richest and most famous abbeys in Italy. It belongs to the Benedictine Order and is located about from Rome, in t ...

from ''c''.830 to 842. His abbacy corresponds with a drop in the number of property transactions involving Farfa, perhaps because " tswealth was by that time sufficient to cover major building at the abbey itself." Sichard added an oratory to the existing abbey. On Sichard's death in 842, the

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intervened to appoint Bishop

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in charge of the abbey until an abbot,

Hilderic Hilderic (460s – 533) was the penultimate king of the Vandals and Alans in North Africa in Late Antiquity (523–530). Although dead by the time the Vandal Kingdom was overthrown in 534, he nevertheless played a key role in that event. Biog ...

, could be elected (844). Sichard's epitaph was copied into the ''

Libellus constructionis Farfensis The ''Libellus constructionis Farfensis'' ("Little Book of the Construction of Farfa"), often referred to simply as the ''Constructio'' in context, is a written history of the Abbey of Farfa from its foundation by Thomas of Maurienne ''circa'' 700 ...

'', the earliest history of Farfa, of which only a fragment survives in an eleventh-century lectionary. The rediscovery of most of the epitaph in 1959 demonstrates that the author of the ''Libellus'' was an accurate copyist.Costambeys, 13–14. Cf. also C. McClendon, ''The Imperial Abbey of Farfa'' (New Haven: 1987), 2, on the twentieth-century discovery.

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{{Authority control 842 deaths Abbots of Farfa Year of birth unknown