Ratgar was a controversial abbot at the famous Benedictine monastery of Fulda during the early ninth century.
[2] He was from a noble family in Germania, and was sent by his parents to Fulda, whose monastery school was already becoming a renowned center of learning.
[3] Ratgar also showed concern for the education of the young monks in his care, sending them to study with the leading scholars of the day.
He sent Hraban Maur (future abbot, archbishop and leading theologian) and Hatto to Tours to study the liberal arts with Alcuin, the founding scholar of the Carolingian Renaissance.
[9] Despite the attempts of several bishops and archbishops to intervene, Ratgar continued his manner of rule among the monks, until in 817 he was "charged and convicted" by the monks.,[10] and the Emperor Louis the Pious had him deposed and banished.