Supposedly a direct descendant of Charlemagne, and the fourth son mentioned in the romantic poem Duke Aymon, by William Caxton.

[2] The poem is Caxton's translation of the long French Chanson de Geste, Les Quatre Fils Aymon (The Four Sons of Aymon), where Renaud de Montauban dies in an almost identical manner.

[3] Reinold began his religious life by entering the Benedictine monastery of Pantaleon in Cologne, where he was appointed head of a building project occurring in the abbey.

Reinold was beaten to death with hammers and his body deposited into a pool near the Rhine.

His body was later found through divine means, leading to the attribution of Reinold as the patron saint of stonemasons.