Tedald (c. 990 – 12 June 1036), also known as Theodald, Theodaldus, Tedaldus, Tedaldo, or Teodaldo, was the forty-third

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from 1023 until his death. Tedald came from the highest ranks of the nobility of

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. He was the second son of Tedald, Count of

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, of the

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, and Willa, possible daughter of

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. His elder brother was

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. He was the uncle of

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, who was born after his death. As bishop Tedald encouraged and protected the

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. He granted permission for

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to found a monastery and a hermitage (''eremo'') at

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in his diocese (c. 1024). Tedald also sponsored the work of the monk

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, whose treatise on

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, the ''

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'', was dedicated to him. At Tedald's invitation, Guido took up the training of the cathedral singers at Arezzo around 1025. The bishop also supported the architect

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, who added to the

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during his episcopate and was sent by Tedald in 1026 on a paid visit to

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to study its

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. He was succeeded in the diocese by Immo, a

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from

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and chaplain at the court of

Emperor Conrad II Conrad II ( – 4 June 1039), also known as and , was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039. The first of a succession of four Salian emperors, who reigned for one century until 1125, Conrad ruled the kingdoms ...

.Wolfram, 278

Notes

References

* Conant, Kenneth John (1978). ''Carolingian and Romanesque Architecture, 800 to 1200''. Penguin Books. * Grout, Donald Jay, and Palisca, Claude V. (2001). ''A History of Western Music'', 6th ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. . * Wolfram, Herwig (2006). ''Conrad II, 990–1039. Emperor of Three Kingdoms''. Pennsylvania State University Press.
Tedald
at the Medieval Lands Project—Northern Italy {{DEFAULTSORT:Tedald 990s births 1036 deaths House of Canossa Bishops of Arezzo 11th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops