Teutsind
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Teutsind (fl.ā735ā742) was a Frankish cleric, abbot of St Martin, Tours, and of Fontenelle Abbey.[1][2]
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Charles Martel appointed him to these offices,[1] during his tenure of which Teutsind distinguished himself by conveying abbey properties to members of the local nobility in order to ensure their support for the king.[3]
He is generally considered a poor abbot,[3][4] in that he pursued the king's political agenda to the detriment of the abbeys in his charge, running down their finances and offending benefactors and his fellow clerics.[3][4]