Erkanbald was the Abbot of Fulda from 997 and afterwards Archbishop of Mainz from 1011 until his death.
A seal stamp of the archbishop Erkanbald, made of slate, around 1011. A joint possession of Hamburg Museum and Focke Museum.
The Abbey of Fulda, from 1221 the Princely Abbey of Fulda and from 1752 the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda, was a Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality centered on Fulda, in the present-day German state of Hesse.
Territory of the Princely Abbey of Fulda in the early 18th century
Prince-Abbot Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach (1671–1677)
Fulda Cathedral (the former abbey) today
Painting of Prince-Bishop, Prince Abbot Heinrich von Bibra by his court painter, Johann Andreas Herrlein