Notker

(b nr St Gall, c 840; d there, 912). Monk of the Benedictine Abbey of St Gall, sometimes known as ‘Notker Balbulus’ (‘the stammerer’). He was the most famous author of Sequence texts in the Middle Ages, in his Liber hymnorum of884, which includes an explanatory and autobiographical preface. He should not be confused with Notker Labeo (c 950-1022), also a monk at St Gall, who wrote five short essays on musical topics.

The first name Notker or Notger may refer to:

• Notker of Liège, provost of Saint Gall and later first Prince-Bishop of Liège
• Notker the Stammerer, Latin poet
• Notker Labeo, a monk in Saint Gall and author
• Notker Physicus, physician and painter

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