Aribo (Mainz)

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Aribo (* around 990; † April 6, 1031 in Como ) was Archbishop of Mainz from 1021 . He is buried in Mainz Cathedral . He was probably related to Emperor Heinrich II , but this cannot be proven beyond doubt.

Life

Aribo was a son of Count Palatine Aribo I of Bavaria and Adala of Bavaria , daughter of Count Palatine Hartwig I. As a descendant of the Bavarian family of the Aribones , he was probably educated in Salzburg . Aribo was involved in the founding of the Göss monastery around 1004 , the first abbess of which was his sister Kunigunde in 1020. Henry II brought him to his court chapel as a deacon around 1020 . In September 1021 Heinrich transferred the Archdiocese of Mainz to him. In the election of the king in Kamba , a place on the right bank of the Rhine opposite Oppenheim , which has since disappeared , Aribo acted as election officer on September 4, 1024 and was able to enforce his candidate, Salier Konrad the Elder . On September 8th he crowned Konrad king in Mainz . This transferred Aribo the Italian Arch Chancellery ; thus Aribo was head of the entire Reich Chancellery, since as Archbishop of Mainz he was already German Arch Chancellor. The enforcement of his candidate, the leadership of the election, the first voting right and the execution of the coronation brought Aribo the climax of its validity. His metropolis reached u. a. from the suburbs of today's Bremen to just under Meran , from Prague to the Graubündner Rheinquellen .

But Aribo renounced the coronation of Konrad's wife Gisela and left the coronation to the Archbishop of Cologne . This was a scandal, the causes of which are still a mystery to research today. None of the conjectures considered can be proven by the sources. Archbishop Pilgrim recognized his chance to win the coronation right for Cologne in the long run, and on September 21, 1024 crowned Gisela queen in his cathedral . This initiated the slow transition of medieval royal coronation rights from Mainz to Cologne.

Aribo was concerned with the spiritual life and the construction of the cathedral in his episcopal city. He called Ekkehard IV. From St.Gallen to Mainz, made him head of the cathedral school there and commissioned him to write verses for a cycle of mural paintings for the cathedral that was currently under construction.

Due to his strict and unyielding stance on ecclesiastical questions, Aribo's relations with the Pope were strained. Aribo insisted on the independence of the bishop in his diocese . His position at the Synod of Seligenstadt in 1023 was that one should not appeal to Rome against an episcopal judgment. In the same year he represented the canonical position of marriage in the marriage dispute of the Count of Hammerstein, also towards Pope Benedict VIII ; this then withdrew the pallium from Aribo .

Despite his strained relationship with the Pope, Aribo was in Rome several times: in 1027 he presided over the Frankfurt Synod . In 1031 he made a pilgrimage to Rome , on whose return he died in Como when he wanted to recruit Magistri Comacini to restore the cathedral. Shortly before his death, he suffered three serious defeats: the loss of the right to coronation, the suppression of the Hammerstein affair, and the abandonment of Mainz's claims to Gandersheim. His body was brought to Mainz and buried in the west choir of the still unfinished cathedral .

literature

Web links

  • Aribo (Mainz) in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"

Remarks

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predecessor Office successor
Erkanbald Archbishop of Mainz
1021-1031 		Bardo
personal data
SURNAME Aribo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Mainz
DATE OF BIRTH around 990
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1031
Place of death Como