Baturich
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Baturich (died 847), also spelled Baturic or Baturicus, was the abbot of Saint Emmeram's and bishop of Regensburg from 817 until his death.
Baturich studied under Hraban Maur at the abbey of Fulda.[1] He became abbot and bishop simultaneously in 817.[2][3] In 819, he accompanied the army of Bavaria in the field against the rebel Ljudevit in Lower Pannonia.[4] In May 823, he attended the great council of the Emperor Louis the Pious at Frankfurt.[5]
In 833, when Louis the German became king of all East Francia, he appointed Baturich as his ambasciator, a court officer who relayed the king's commands to the scribes. It was probably at this time that he appointed Baturich his archchaplain, although the earliest reference to this appointment is from 844.[6] He remained Louis's archchaplain until his death.[7] When in 833 the Emperor Louis the Pious was imprisoned by King Lothair, Baturich remained loyal to King Louis and the emperor.[6] That same year, the emperor gave him control of Mondsee Abbey.[8]
Baturich did not accompany the king on his expedition to Italy in 837,[9] but he was with Louis's army during its campaign of 846 against Moravia and its disastrous retreat through Bohemia.[10] He died in 847.[7] He was succeeded by his nephew, Erchanfrid.[11]
