 He entered the Order of St. Benedict at Fulda as a youth, where the celebrated Rabanus Maurus was one of his fellow-students.He went together with him to the Monastery of St. Martin at Tours to profit by the lessons of its great teacher, Alcuin.After a brief sojourn at Tours, both friends came back to the Benedictine house at Fulda, and there they spent most of their life previous to their promotion to the episcopal dignity.