Widerolf

The bishop of Strasbourg (997), who was devoured by mice in the seventeenth year of his episcopate, because he suppressed the convent of Seltzen, on the Rhine. A similar fate befell Bishop Adolf of Cologne in 112. See also Hatto.

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References

Source

  • Cobham Brewer, E. (1891). Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 2, p. 151.