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Ekkehard of Aura ( la, Ekkehardus Uraugiensis; died 1126) was the Abbot of
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(a monastery founded by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, on the Franconian Saale river, near Bad Kissingen, Bavaria) from 1108. A Benedictine monk and chronicler, he made updates to the ''World Chronicle'' (''Chronicon universale'') of
Frutolf of Michelsberg Frutolf of Michelsberg (died 17 January 1103) was a monk in Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany, of which he became prior. He was probably a native of Bavaria. Frutolf was possibly a teacher of the quadrivium in the monastery, but principally ...
, adding important German history between 1098 and 1125 during the reign of Emperor
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, in which he sided strongly with the papacy in the Investiture Controversy. He was a participant in the
Crusade of 1101 The Crusade of 1101 was a minor crusade of three separate movements, organized in 1100 and 1101 in the successful aftermath of the First Crusade. It is also called the Crusade of the Faint-Hearted due to the number of participants who joined this ...
(Lerner, 1989), and provided important source material for the Rhineland massacres of Jews and for the First Crusade.


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Further reading

* Ekkehard of Aura from the Catholic Encyclopedia * Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura
"Emico and the Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews"
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*Ekkehard of Aura
Hierosolymita and World Chronicle (On the Crusades)
from the
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*Robert E. Lerner, "Ekkerhard of Aura", '' Dictionary of the Middle Ages'', Volume 4, pp. 417–418, 1989. *McCarthy, T. J. H., ''Chronicles of the Investiture Contest: Frutolf of Michelsberg and his continuators''. Manchester:
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