The author of multiple treatises, ranging in subject matter from the iconoclast controversy to Spanish Adoptionism to critiques of the Carolingian royal family, Agobard is best known for his critiques of Jewish religious practices and political power in the Frankish-Carolingian realm.
10 Facts About Agobard
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At some point, Agobard was ordained as a chorbishop, or assistant bishop.
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Agobard is notorious for his vocal attacks on the local Jewish population and their religious practices.
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Agobard found this last provision particularly galling, and wrote his first anti-Jewish tract on the matter: De Baptismo Judaicorum Mancipiorum.
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Agobard continued to confront the emperor, particularly on the issues of royal succession and the matter of land ownership.
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Agobard accused the emperor of abandoning his 817 Ordinatio imperii decree, which promoted an all-encompassing unity of church and empire.
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In both of the two rebellions against Louis, 830 and 833, Agobard supported the ill-fated revolt of Louis' son Lothair I In 833, when Lothair launched his second revolt, Agobard published his support for Lothair once more in several works: A Comparison of Ecclesiastical and Political Government and Wherein the Dignity of the Church Outshines the Majesty of Empires and the Liber Apologeticus in defense of the rebelling sons of Louis.
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Agobard wrote three works against Amalarius: On Divine Psalmody, On the Correction of the Antiphonary, and Liber officialis.
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When he returned to Lyon, Agobard worked to roll back Amalarius' actions, with the support of Florus.
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Agobard wrote a treatise arguing against weather magic called De Grandine et Tonitruis.