Norbert of Xanten

1080–1134

12th‑century German bishop and founder of the Premonstratensians, Catholic saint, reformer of clergy and defender of the Eucharist

writer · archbishop · Catholic priest

Born in Gennep

Contemporaries

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• Omar Khayyám (1048–1131)
• Al-Ghazali (1056–1111)
• Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179)
• Peter Abelard (1079–1142)
• Urban II (1035–1099)
• Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109)
• Bernard of Clairvaux (1091–1153)
• Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti (1110–1165)

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