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Saint Benno

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1437512 ↗
Source-derived summary

Saint Benno, St Benno or St. Benno (German: Sankt Benno) may refer to:

People

Saint Benno of Metz (927–940)

Saint Benno of Meissen (bishop, 1066–1106)

Blessed Benno II of Osnabrück (bishop, 1068–1088)

Churches

Ermita de San Benón in Villarroya de los Pinares, Spain

Saint Benno's Church, Bad Lauterberg

Saint Benno's Church, Goslar

Saint Benno's Church, Hannover

Saint Benno's Church, Meissen

St. Benno, Munich

Saint Benno's Church, Spremberg

Saint Benno's Church, Türkheim

Saint Benno's Church, Warsaw

Other

St. Benno-Gymnasium, school in Dresden

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Editorial summary

“Saint Benno” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Saint, Benno and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1066, 1106, 1068, 1088—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Saint, Benno and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“Saint Benno” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Saint, Benno and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1437512. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1066, 1106, 1068 and 1088.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saint Benno” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.