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Ekkehard of Aura (; born ''c.'' 1080, died 20 February 1126) was the first Abbot of Aura (a monastery founded by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, on the
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river, near
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) from 1108. It is thought that Ekkehard was a member of the Bavarian aristocracy. A
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monk and chronicler, he made updates to the ''World Chronicle'' (''Chronicon universale'') of Frutolf of Michelsberg, 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
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. He was a participant in the
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(Lerner, 1989), and provided important source material for the
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of Jews and for the
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. While the Crusade of 1101 was considered a failure, Ekkehard did manage to journey to Jerusalem, although his stay in the Holy City was only brief. He returned from the Holy Land via Rome, before returning to Germany, where he became a monk at the abbey of Tegernsee in 1102/03 before moving to Michaelsberg abbey near Bamberg, although these claims have been contested. It is also thought that Ekkehard spent some time in Würzburg, due to the dedication he included when writing the ''Life of St Burchard''. It was here that Ekkehard met Otto of Bamberg, who would later go on to found the monastery of Aura and install Ekkehard as its first abbot. Aura was founded to be part of the Hirsau network of monasteries, which were hugely influential nodes in a network of reform-minded monasteries.


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* Ekkehard of Aura from the
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and Ekkehard of Aura
"Emico and the Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews"
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Hierosolymita and World Chronicle (On the Crusades)
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*Robert E. Lerner, "Ekkerhard of Aura", ''
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'', Volume 4, pp. 417–418, 1989. *McCarthy, T. J. H., ''Chronicles of the Investiture Contest: Frutolf of Michelsberg and his continuators''. Manchester: Manchester Medieval Sources. 2014. . {{DEFAULTSORT:Ekkehard of Aura 1080 births 1126 deaths 12th-century German historians Historians of the Crusades Medieval writers about the Crusades Christians of the Crusade of 1101 Christian anti-Judaism in the Middle Ages 12th-century writers in Latin