Teutsind () was a
Frankish
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* Francia, a post-Roman state in France and Germany
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cleric,
abbot of St Martin,
Tours
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, and of
Fontenelle Abbey.
[W Davies and P Fouracre (2002): ''Property and Power in the Early Middle Ages'' (Cambridge University Press), pp.42-43][Susan Wood, 2006: ''The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West'' (]OUP
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), p.21.
Charles Martel
Charles Martel ( – 22 October 741) was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death. He was a son of the Frankish statesma ...
appointed him to these offices,
during his tenure of which Teutsind distinguished himself by conveying abbey properties to members of the local nobility in order to ensure their support for the king.
[E Deniaux, C Lorren, P Bauduin and T Jarry, 2002: ''La Normandie avant les Normands: de la conquête romaine à l’arrivée des Vikings'' (Rennes: Éditions Ouest-France, coll. "Université"), p.285 ()]
He is generally considered a poor abbot,
[Ian Wood, Graham Loud, John Taylor (1991): ''Church and Chronicle in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to John Taylor'' (A&C Black), p.5] in that he pursued the king's political agenda to the detriment of the abbeys in his charge, running down their finances and offending benefactors and his fellow clerics.
References
8th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
Frankish abbots
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