Rudolf of St Trond (also Rodulf, Rodolfus, Rodolphe, Radulphus, Rudolph, or Raoul, c. 1070–1138) was a Benedictine abbot of

St Trond Abbey Sint-Truiden (; french: link=no, Saint-Trond ; li, Sintruin ) is a city and municipality located in the province of Limburg, Flemish Region, Belgium, and has over 41,500 inhabitants, which makes it one of the largest cities in Limburg. The mun ...

, chronicler and composer. A musical treatise ''Quaestiones in musica'' was attributed to him by the musicologist Rudolf Steglich; another suggestion is

Franco of Liège Franco of Liège (died ) was an 11th-century mathematician who worked on squaring the circle. He was the chancellor (attested 1057) and later scholaster of Saint Lambert's Cathedral, Liège (before 1066-after 1083). F.P.C. De Jong, "A Comparative S ...

. He wrote a chronicle ''Gesta Abbatum Trudonensium'', on the abbots of his abbey, beginning in 999; it is included in the '' Paleographie musicale'' and the ''

Monumenta Germaniae Historica The ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'' (''MGH'') is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published primary sources, both chronicle and archival, for the study of Northwestern and Central European history from the end of the Roman Empire ...

''. His description of monastic life includes details of musical practice and training methods of

Guido of Arezzo Guido of Arezzo ( it, Guido d'Arezzo; – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a ma ...

. Historian Henri de Lubac wrote that he showed "a very exacting and almost combative idea of historical truth."''Medieval Exegesis'' (1988 translation), p. 73.

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