Grimald of Weissenburg

[2] In 833 at the latest, Grimald received Weissenburg Abbey in Speiergau and had St. Peter's church rebuilt which had been destroyed in a fire.

There is evidence that the poet-monk Otfrid of Weissenburg was one of the two scribes who spent time at the court of Louis the German when Grimald was chancellor.

He generated a busy construction activity and transformed the library into a centre of sophisticated education in the eastern Frankish empire.

Ratpert, a Saint Gall historian, dedicated an epigram to him and Walafrid Strabo even lauded Grimald's poetry, of which nothing has been preserved however.

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 well as the affectionate gratitude of his monasteries.