Ado of Vienne

Ado von Vienne (* 799 in Champagne ; † December 16, 875 ) was archbishop and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church .

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Born in Champagne in 799, he was a Benedictine monk and educated in the Abbey of Ferrières, from 860 Archbishop of Vienne ; died on December 16, 875. He wrote: Chronicon de sex aetatibus mundi , a main source for the history of the Frankish kings .

Ado still received the formation of the Carolingian period; For a while he stayed at the Prüm monastery, following an invitation from Abbot Markward , his former brother in the monastery. As Archbishop of Vienne , he took a respectable position and the King Lothar II. As an envoy to Pope Nicholas I sent. But he owes his lasting memory to his historical work. Like all clergymen of that time, he shares the idea of ​​a unified empire, and in his chronicle he traces the series of emperors, from Constantine and Irene to Karl , up to Ludwig II.

In the greater part of his concise work he follows the Chronicle of Bede and other well-known works. Wherever he touches his own time, the emperor always appears, as in France too, Charles the Bald , acting right and wise, but Pope Nicholas I shines in the brightest light. Ado should not look for an unbiased historical view. In addition to the chronicle, Ado wrote the martyrology of Adonis , in which brief historical information and legends of his predecessor, St. Desiderius of Vienne , as well as Abbot Theudarius , founder of the Abbey of Saint-Chef .

literature

• Antoine Rivet de La Grange : Histoire littéraire de la France , vol. 5 , p. 469 ff.
• Ex Adonis archiepiscopi Viennensis chronico . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 2: Scriptores rerum Sangallensium. Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Carolini. Hanover 1829, pp. 315–323 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Ado, Archbishop of Vienne, saint. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 38.
• Wilhelm Wattenbach:  Ado, Archbishop of Vienne . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 88 f.
• Maya Maskarinec: A Universalizing Rome Through the Lens of Ado of Vienne, in: diess., City of Saints. Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages. Philadelphia 2018. pp. 154ff.

Web links

• Ado archiepiscopus Viennensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"