Tassilo

Bavaria was incorporated; its duke, Tassilo, first made a vassal and then deposed.

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Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, had been a more or less rebellious vassal ever since the beginning of his reign, and Charles now made use of the pope's influence, exercised through the powerful bishops of Freising, Salzburg, and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Tassilo founded the Benedictine monasteries of Mondsee (748) and

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

That niello was not unknown to the "barbarian" nations is proved by the chalice in Kremsmünster, a present of Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

A remarkable candlestick of bronze is still preserved at Kremsmünster, and is believed by some to be coeval with the chalice of Tassilo, c. 810, belonging to the same treasury; but other authorities assign the candlestick to a date at least two centuries later.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Tassilo had invited their assistance against his overlord; and after the Duke's final submission Charles invaded their country and conquered it as far as the Raab (791).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Next year the Lombard prince, Areghis, having fortified himself at Salerno, had actually been crowned King of the Lombards when Charles descended upon him at Beneventum, received his submission, and took his son Grimwald as a hostage, after which, finding that Tassilo had been secretly associated with the conspiracy of the Lombards, he invaded Bavaria from three sides with three armies drawn from at least five nationalities.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Tassilo chalice, both of Irish origin, stand almost alone in the information they afford of an otherwise unsuspected mechanical skill and richness of ornament, particularly in the matter of enamels, in a remote and barbarous age.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Once more the influence of the Holy See settled the Bavarian question in Charles 'favour; Adrian threatened Tassilo with excommunication if he persisted in rebellion, and as the Duke's own subjects refused to follow him to the field, he personally made submission, did homage, and in return received from Charles a new lease of his duchy

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

The most remarkable of these is that of Tassilo, which bears the inscription

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913