Fulk (archbishop of Reims)

Fulk the Venerable ( Fulk le Vénérable or Volker Venerable ) ( † June 17 900) was Lord Chancellor and 882-900 Archbishop of Reims.

As a member of a noble family, he was educated in the royal palace, and then belonged to the king's entourage of Charles the Bald, whom he accompanied to Italy. The education of the future King Louis the Stammerer was entrusted to him.

883 he was - after the death of Hincmar - appointed Archbishop of Reims. After the deposition of the Emperor Charles the Fat 887 he tried to bring his relative Guido of Spoleto to the French throne, crowned him even 888 in Langres, but could not prevail. The Enthronement of Robertiners Odo of Paris in the same year, he put himself at the head of the legitimist, operating all conspiracies against Odo, also turned to Emperor Arnulf, but wanted peace in the West and needed, as he was otherwise engaged. 893 he crowned himself the Carolingian Charles the Simple, the Fulk made ​​by Odos death to his Lord Chancellor.

Fulk was murdered by order of Count Baldwin II of Flanders, as he expansionist ambitions of Flanders opposed.

• Archbishop of Reims
• Roman Catholic bishop ( 9th century )
• Born in the 9th century
• Died 900
• Man