Wibald
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Wibald (; early 1098 – 19 July 1158) was a 12th-century abbot of Stavelot (Stablo) and Malmedy in present-day Belgium, and abbot of Corvey in Germany. He figured prominently in the court circle of the German kings of his time.
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- 1098
- Died
- 1158
- Works
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Stavelot
- Place of death
- Bitola
- Position held
- abbot
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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- 1098-00-00
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- 1158-07-19
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Wibald (; early 1098 – 19 July 1158) was a 12th-century abbot of Stavelot (Stablo) and Malmedy in present-day Belgium, and abbot of Corvey in Germany. He figured prominently in the court circle of the German kings of his time.
==Biography== thumb|Sacramentary of Wibald Wibald was born near Stavelot in 1098. Soon after he studied at the monastic schools at Stavelot and the abbey of Saint-Laurent at Liège, where one of his teachers was Rupert of Deutz. He entered the Benedictine monastery at Waulsort near Namur in 1117. After presiding for some time over the monastic school there he went to the monastery at Stavelot and in 1130 was elected Abbot of Stavelot and Malmedy. On 22 October 1146, he was also elected Abbot of Corvey and four months later the convents at Fischbeck and Kemnade were annexed to Corvey by Conrad III. During the abbacy of Wibald, the monastery of Stavelot reached the period of its greatest fame, and at Corvey the monastic discipline which had been on the decline was again restored.
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