Saint Alcuin ( Alcuin of York ) is considered as a saint by all the main branches of Christianity: Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

Alcuin of York is the most influential teacher in Europe as he set the basis of the syllabus for European schools.

The young Alcuin came to the cathedral church of York during the golden age of Archbishop Ecgbert and Northumbrian King Eadberht.

It was in York that Alcuin formed his love of classical poetry, though he was sometimes troubled by the fact that it was written by non-Christians.

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In Spain, Adoptionism was opposed by Beatus of Liebana, and in the Carolingian territories, the Adoptionist position was condemned by Pope Hadrian I, Alcuin of York, Agobard, and officially in Carolingian territory by the Council of Frankfurt ( 794 ).

Even some contemporaries found the methods employed to win over the Saxons wanting, as this excerpt from a letter of Alcuin of York to his friend Meginfrid, written in 796, shows:

" Never before has such an atrocity been seen ," declared the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin of York.

" Never before has such an atrocity been seen ," declared the Northumbrian scholar, Alcuin of York.

* May 19 – Alcuin of York, bishop of Tours, advisor to Charlemagne

* Charlemagne summons the monk and scholar Alcuin of York to head the palace school at Aachen in order to inspire the revival of education in Europe.

Charlemagne, advised by Peter of Pisa and Alcuin of York, attracted the scholars of England and Ireland, and by decree in AD 787 established schools in every abbey in his empire.

At the same time, Beatus strengthened the links between Asturias, Rome, and the Carolingian Empire, and was supported in his theological struggle by the Pope and by his friend Alcuin of York, an Anglo-Saxon scholar who had settled among the Carolingian court in Aachen.

Lynne Truss attributes an early form of the modern question mark in western language to Alcuin of York.

Alcuin of York was commissioned by Charlemagne to create this new handwriting, which he did in collaboration with other scribes and based on the tradition of other Roman handwriting.

The diocese was an old one, and traditions of the early Christian church lingered ; Felix of Urgel's tendencies towards the heretical position of adoptionism was attacked by Alcuin of York in Contra Felicem ( Runciman, 1947 ).

Theodulf had been in friendly competition over the standardization of the Vulgate with the chief among the Charlemagne's scholars, Alcuin of York.

According to a contemporary letter from Alcuin of York, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's court as one of his chief advisors, " the vengeance of the blood shed by the father has reached the son "; and Alcuin adds " This was not a strengthening of the kingdom, but its ruin.

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* Alcuin, nicknamed " Flaccus "

* Alcuin of York, a Northumbrian scholar, nicknamed Albinus

An early headmaster Alcuin ( Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ), went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne, and founded several of the earliest schools in mainland Europe.

* c. 750 Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ( Alcuin )

* Alcuin ( Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ), former Head Master, went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne.

* Alcuin ( Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus ), former Head Master, went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne.

Alcuin was born in Northumbria, presumably sometime in the 740s.

Rabanus Maurus ( c 780 – 856 ) ( left ), supported by Alcuin ( c 735 – 804 ) ( middle ), presents his work to Otgar of Mainz, from a Carolingian Manuscript, c840.

The Eastern Orthodox theologian Romanides states that it was not until the rise of Charlemagne and his successors, and the influence of the Palatine School established by the Englishman Alcuin ( 735 – 804 ), that the Church of Rome became almost exclusively committed to Augustinian theology.

* 796 – 800: Alcuin, chancellor to Charlemagne as king of the Franks, prepared the Capitulaire De Villis

* Alcuin ( c. 735 – 804 )

* Alcuin ( 100 – 101 )

* Alcuin ( d. 804 )

* Alcuin, missionary and bishop ( approximate date ) ( d. 804 )

In common hagiographical fashion, the Vita Alcuini asserts that Alcuin was ' of noble English stock ,' and this statement has usually been accepted by scholars.

Because in early Anglo-Latin writing, paterfamilias (" head of a family, householder ") usually referred to a ceorl, Donald A. Bullough suggests that Alcuin's family was of cierlisc status: i. e., free but subordinate to a noble lord, and that Alcuin and other members of his family rose to prominence through beneficial connections with the aristocracy.

Egbert was devoted to Alcuin, who thrived under his tutelage.

He was of noble Frankish parentage, and educated at the palace school in Aquae Grani ( Aachen ) under Alcuin.

Saint Jerome and his colleagues, who produced the Vulgate translation of the Bible into Latin, developed an early system ( circa 400 AD ); this was considerably improved on by Alcuin.

In the 9th century, Tours was at the heart of the Carolingian Rebirth, in particular because of Alcuin abbot of Marmoutier.

Alcuin ( pictured center ), was one of the leading scholars of the Carolingian Renaissance.

Alcuin was a Northumbrian monk and deacon who served as head of the Palace School from 782 to 796, except for the years 790 to 793 when he returned to England.

Among those to follow Alcuin across the Channel to the Frankish court was Joseph Scottus, an Irishman who left some original biblical commentary and acrostic experiments.

Alcuin led this effort and was responsible for the writing of textbooks, creation of word lists, and establishing the trivium and quadrivium as the basis for education.

Alcuin spoke Old English ( or Old Anglish ), which, coupled with the printer's seeming anti-Christian sentiments, immediately raised suspicions that it was a fraud-confirmed in the printer's subsequent trial and sentence to gaol.

The king and nobles of the district endowed him with estates until he was at last able to build a church, over which Alcuin afterwards ruled.