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Grimald had a significant share in the cultural and economical boom of the Abbey of Saint Gall in the ninth century. He generated a busy construction activity and transformed the library into a centre of sophisticated education in the eastern
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In the year 870, Grimald abdicated his political offices (but not his abbacy) due to old age and withdrew to Saint Gall where he died on 13 June 872. A strong and winning personality, Grimald united in himself the gifts of the courtier and the prince of the church, who won the favour of his king as
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well as the affectionate gratitude of his monasteries. Despite his lifelong status as a secular priest, he was highly esteemed among the monks. Dean
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On 19 October 833, Grimald was for the first time mentioned as head of the imperial chancellery. He held this office (with an interruption from 838/40-854) until his withdrawal due to old age in 870. There is evidence that the poet-monk
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