Possibly descended from the Merovingians and claimed by the Irish as one of their own,
St. Rupert of
Salzburg was
bishop of Worms when Childeric III asked that he evangelize Bavaria. Rupert travelled from
Ratisbon to the Danube, where he converted Duke Theodo II. The duke gave him land at Iuvavum, on which Rupert established the
abbey of
St. Peter and the Nonnberg convent. Its
abbess was his niece, Erendruda. Rupert also converted
pagan temples into
Christian churches and established the salt-mining industry from which the city takes its present name, Salzburg. When Rupert died c. 710/717, he was buried in St. Peter's abbey. Vergil of Salzberg later translated his
relics to the
cathedral in Salzberg
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