Udo von Gleichen-Reinhausen

Udo von Gleichen-Reinhausen (* around 1045; † August 19, 1114 ) was Bishop of Hildesheim and Count of Reinhausen from 1079 to 1114 (today's district of Gleichen in the district of Göttingen ).

In a list of bishops , which is preserved in the sacramentary of 1014, the first thirteen bishops from Gunthar to Bernward are briefly listed , but without counting, for the period from 815 to 1014 and supplemented by two later successive scribes up to Bishop Udo.

Udo was the fourth and youngest son of Count Elli II von Reinhausen in Leinegau (* around 1010). The Leinegau, the area on the Leine , was temporarily united with the Saxon Hessengau after the death of Elli I in 965 , and the Esikonen family became the Counts of Reinhausen, and later of Winzenberg-Reinhausen. Udo's siblings were Konrad von Reinhausen († August 28, 1086), Heinrich I., Hermann III. and Mathilde (∞ Meginhard V. Graf von Formbach).

Udo chose the ecclesiastical status and was first canon of Hildesheim.

The Saxon uprising against King Heinrich IV began in 1073. Udo's brother Konrad was probably one of the Saxons who decided in the summer in Wormsleben (today's district of Lüttchendorf ) to take up arms against the king's arbitrariness. The investiture controversy began around 1075 .

Before 1079 Udo and his siblings founded a small canon monastery in Reinhausen , south-southeast of Göttingen . In the same year, at the request of the king, Udo became Hezilo's successor on the bishopric of Hildesheim.

On January 21, 1085, at the time of the opposing kings, he was accused by the Saxons, together with his brother Konrad and Count Dietrich II of Katlenburg, of having negotiated with the emperor. There were riots in which Dietrich II was killed. Udo and Konrad fled to the emperor and took his side.

In 1086 Heinrich IV gave Bishop Udo von Hildesheim the farm yard of the royal palace Werla with the " salt from the grid " in order to win him over to his interests. Udo expanded it into Schladen Castle and hired it as Vogt (Eike or) Eiko von Dorstadt († around 1131?), Who then called himself "von Schladen". The castle remained in the possession of the Counts of Schladen until 1353.

Around the year 1100 Udo recruited Dutch and Flemish new settlers to settle in the undeveloped forest areas in the Weser and Leinebergland and in Vogler near Eschershausen . The rights of these settlers were laid down in the "Eschershäuser Hägerrecht".

At the beginning of the 12th century he enfeoffed his nephew Hermann von Formbach with the Winzenburg , who then called himself Count von Winzenburg. With his son of the same name, the sex died out in the male line as early as 1152.

Udo's sister Richenza von Reinhausen was kidnapped and married by Gerold von Immenhausen.

literature

• Nathalie Kruppa:  Udo von Reinhausen, Bishop of Hildesheim. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 33, Bautz, Nordhausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-88309-690-2 , Sp. 1433-1443.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The picture of the bishop in the Hildesheim bishop's chronicle Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 31, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on August 4, 2006; It is quoted there from Hans Goetting: The Diocese of Hildesheim 3: The Hildesheim Bishops from 815 to 1221, Berlin-New York 1984 

predecessor	Office	successor
Hezilo	Bishop of Hildesheim 1079–1114	Bruning