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"Hatto" is a common misspelling or typo for: Hatton.

Date "Hatto" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1707. (references)

Specialty Definition: HATTO

Domain Definition
Literature 1: From the right and the left, from behind and before,
2: Widerolf, bishop of Strasburg (in 997), was devoured by mice in the seventeenth year of his episcopate, because he suppressed the convent of Seltzen, on the Rhine.
3: They have wetted their teeth against the stones,
4: Southey: Bishop Hatto.
5: Hatto Archbishop of Mainz, according to tradition, was devoured by mice. The story says that in 970 there was a great famine in Germany, and Hatto, that there might be better store for the rich, assembled the poor in a barn, and burnt them to death, saying, "They are like mice, only good to devour the corn." By and by an army of mice came against the arch bishop, and the abbot, to escape the plague, removed to a tower on the Rhine, but hither came the mouse-army by hundreds and thousands, and ate the bishop up. The tower is still called Mouse-tower. Southey has a ballad on the subject, but makes the invaders an army of rats. (See Mouse Tower; Pied Piper.)
6: From within and without, from above and below
7: For they were sent to do judgment on him."
8: And down through the ceiling, and up through the floor,
9: "And in at the windows, and in at the door,
10: Frei herr von Gttengen collected the poor in a great barn, and barnt them to death; and being invaded by rats and mice, ran to his castle of Gttingen. The vermin, however, pursued him and ate him clean to the bones, after which his castle sank to the bottom of the lake, "where it may still be seen."
11: And through the walls by thousands they pour,
12: And all at once to the bishop they go.
13: And now they are picking the bishop's bones;
14: They gnawed the flesh from every limb,
15: A very similar legend is told of Count Graaf, a wicked and powerful chief, who raised a tower in the midst of the Rhine for the purpose of exacting tolls. If any boat or barge attempted to evade the exaction, the warders of the tower shot the crew with cross-bows. Amongst other ways of making himself rich was buying up corn. One year a sad famine prevailed, and the count made a harvest of the distress; but an army of rats, pressed by hunger, invaded his tower, and falling on the old baron, worried him to death, and then devoured him. (Legends of the Rhine.)
16: Bishop Adolf of Cologne was devoured by mice or rats in 1112.
17: A similar tale is recorded in the chronicles of William of Mulsburg, book ii. p. 313 (Bone's edition).
18: Mice or rats. Giraldus Cambrensis says. The larger sort of mice are called rats. (Itinerary, book xi. 2.) On the other hand, many rats are called mice, as mustela Alpina, the mus Indicus, the mus aquaticus, the mus Pharaonis, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Common Expressions: HATTO

Expressions Definition
Hatto I Hatto I (c. 850 - May 15, 913), archbishop of Mainz, belonged to a Swabian family, and was probably educated at the monastery of Reichenau, of which be became abbot in 888. (references)
Hatto II Hatto II was the archbishop of Mainz from 968 to 970. (references)

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Extended Definition: HATTO

Hatto

Hatto can refer to:

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Joyce Hatto 78     Hatto 2
Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz 6     Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz 6
Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz 4     Hatto II, Archbishop of Mainz 4
Hatto 2     Joyce Hatto 78

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