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Saint Radbod
Radbod or Radboud (before 850 - 917) was bishop of Utrecht from 900 to 917.
He was the grandson of the last King of the Frisians . He spent his youth with his uncle Gunther, bishop of Cologne . After that, he served at the court of Charles the Bald.
When he was appointed as bishop of Utrecht in 900, the city was in ruins after a number of Norman raids. Like his predecessors, he was seated instead at Deventer.
He died in Ootmarsum in 917. His feast date is November 29.
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