Adalbert was an 11th-century prelate. Having been consecrated

Consecration

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 elsewhere, he is said by the Saxon

Duchy of Saxony

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 writer Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen

Adam of Bremen was a German medieval chronicler. He lived and worked in the second half of the eleventh century. He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum .-Background:Little is known of his life other than hints from his own chronicles...

 to have been sent to become Bishop of Orkney

Bishop of Orkney

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 by his namesake, Adalbert

Adalbert of Hamburg

This article is about Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen. For other uses, see Adalbert .Adalbert of Hamburg-Bremen was a German prelate, who was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen from 1043 until his death...

, Archbishop of Hamburg

Archbishop of Hamburg

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. He is mentioned as the successor of Bishop John

John I (Bishop of Orkney)

John was an 11th-century prelate. According to the Saxon writer Adam of Bremen, historian of the archbishops of Hamburg, John was sent to Orkney by Adalbert, Archbishop of Hamburg, to succeed Thorulf as Bishop of Orkney...

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Adam of Bremen relates that a cleric called Albert was established as the first bishop in Trondheim

Trondheim

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, an event datable to some point between 1067 and 1093. It is possible that Adalbert and Albert are the same men.