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Badurad, lists the following attested forms of his name from Latin documents: Baduradus, Badaradus, Baturatus, Baderadus, Baturicus, Bathuradus and Patratus. (died 17 September 862) was the
bishop of Paderborn The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Paderborn () is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Germany; its seat is Paderborn.
from 815 until his death. Badurad was born into the
Saxon The Saxons, sometimes called the Old Saxons or Continental Saxons, were a Germanic people of early medieval "Old" Saxony () which became a Carolingian " stem duchy" in 804, in what is now northern Germany. Many of their neighbours were, like th ...
nobility during the
Saxon Wars The Saxon Wars were the campaigns and insurrections of the thirty-three years from 772, when Charlemagne first entered Saxony with the intent to conquer, to 804, when the last rebellion of tribesmen was defeated. In all, 18 campaigns were fou ...
(772–804). He was educated in the cathedral of Würzburg. He succeeded Bishop , who died on 9 August 815. At Badurad's request, on 2 April 822, the emperor
Louis the Pious Louis the Pious (; ; ; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor, co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813. He was also King of Aquitaine from 781. As the only ...
granted ecclesiastical immunity to the cathedral of Paderborn. On 25 August that same year, he consecrated the high altar of the Abbey of Corvey and gave the abbey its name, ''Corbeia'' in Latin. In June 829, he attended the
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in Saint Alban's Abbey. He was high in the emperor's confidence. When Abbot Hilduin of Saint-Denis was sentenced to internal exile in 830, he was sent to Paderborn. Around 832, Louis sent Badurad to Corvey as royal emissary. He remained loyal to Louis during the . According to Thegan of Trier, the emperor sent him to negotiate with his rebellious son
Lothar Lothar or Lothair is a Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish masculine given name, while Lotár is a Hungarian masculine given name. Both names are modern forms of the Germanic Chlothar (which is a blended form of ''Hlūdaz'', me ...
in 834. In 835, Badurad was one of the judges in the trial of Ebbo. On 25 October that year, he was present for the transfer of the relics of Saint Quentin to the abbey church under Abbot
Hugh Hugh is the English-language variant of the masculine given name , itself the Old French variant of '' Hugo (name)">Hugo'', a short form of Continental Germanic Germanic name">given names beginning in the element "mind, spirit" (Old English ). ...
. In 836, he acquired for his church relics of Saint Liborius from the diocese of Le Mans. They arrived in Paderborn on 28 May, while the bishop was staying at the imperial palace in
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. At the same time, the bishops concluded "a pact of charity and eternal fraternity" between their sees. An account of these events, the '' Translatio sancti Liborii'', records Badurad's reason for seeking relics: "since ... the mass of commoners had been torn away from error towards becoming righteous people with the greatest difficulty— nd were stillsecretly turning themselves to the practice of certain ancestral superstitions— aduradrealised that if he ordered the body of a saint to be carried there, a great number of the inhabitants, persuaded by the manifestation of miracles (as customarily occur) and by the grace of healings, would begin to worship". At some point, Badurad also acquired relics of Saint Landelin from the
diocese of Cambrai The Archdiocese of Cambrai (; French language, French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Dou ...
. Badurad is the hero of the ''Translatio'', which describes him as a '' familiaris'' of Louis the Pious, a member of the extended imperial household. In June 838, he attended an imperial '' placitum'' at
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. Following Louis's death and the oubreak of civil war, he sided with Lothar. He attended the synod at
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that rehabilitated Ebbo in August 840. He remained with Lothar and as a result temporarily lost control of his church. In November 840,
Louis the German Louis the German (German language, German: ''Ludwig der Deutsche''; c. 806/810 – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II of Germany (German language, German: ''Ludwig II. von Deutschland''), was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 8 ...
held an assembly in Paderborn in his absence. Badurad was less politically involved in his later years. He attended the councils of Mainz (847) and Mainz (852).
Hrabanus Maurus Rabanus Maurus Magnentius ( 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia. He was the author of th ...
addressed a poem to him. The date of his death, 17 September, is recorded in the necrologies of both the cathedral and the . He died in the 48th year of his pontificate, in 862.


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* * * * *{{cite journal , journal=Journal of Medieval History , volume=36 , year=2010 , pages=39–54 , title=The Saxons Within Carolingian Christendom: Post-Conquest Identity in the ''Translationes'' of Vitus, Pusinna and Liborius , first=Eric , last=Shuler , url=https://www.academia.edu/download/107912533/j.jmedhist.2009.10.00220231127-1-lf50dx.pdf 8th-century births 862 deaths 8th-century Saxon people 9th-century Saxon bishops Roman Catholic bishops of Paderborn