Hugh of Champagne

After 719 he became bishop of Lisieux, Bishop of Avranches, Abbot of Fontenelle, Abbot of Saint -Denis, after 720 he became archbishop of Rouen and directed simultaneously dioceses of Paris and Bayeux and the abbeys of Fontenelle and Jumièges.

In the year 715 he is next to his siblings, his older brother, the dux Arnulf ( † after 723 ), and the two younger, Pippin and Gottfried, as sacerdos, priest testifies. A little later he is abbot of Jumièges on the lower reaches of the Seine, and finally to 719 Bishop of Paris, Bishop of Rouen and Bishop of Bayeux.

Hugo is the one in the interaction of the power of the Arnulf Inger ( the later Carolingians ) in the Frankish Empire, covering the church page.

He died on April 9, 730 in the Abbey to Jumièges with about 40 years as abbot of Jumièges Jumièges and was buried there.

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