Abbo (Bishop of Soissons)

Abbo († 937 ) served as Bishop of Soissons for 28 years until his death in the first half of the 10th century .

Life

Abbo succeeded Rodoin in 909 to the bishopric of Soissons and took part in the council of Trosly near Soissons on June 26 of the same year . In two documents of the West Franconian King Karl III. of the simple-minded , he campaigned for Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in 918 and 920 . Then he became Chancellor of King Robert I and his successor Rudolf . He accompanied the latter to Burgundy in 924 and the following year on a campaign against the Normans near Melun .

When Count Heribert II of Vermandois convened a non-canonical synod in Reims at the end of 925 to elect his youngest son Hugo , who was only five years old at the time, as Archbishop of Reims , Abbo, like many other clerics, agreed to this appointment. After King Rudolf also approved Hugo's election and handed over the secular administration of the archbishopric to Heribert, Heribert sent Abbo to Rome as the head of a French delegation in order to obtain confirmation from Pope John X. The Pope also gave his consent to the raising of the young child to archbishopric and determined that Abbo should perform the spiritual duties in the Archdiocese of Reims while Hugo was still too young for it. Abbo lost this position as early as 928 to Odalric, who fled his Archdiocese of Aix before the invasions of Muslim pirates . Four years later he also lost his chancellery, which from then on was exercised by Ansegisel , Bishop of Troyes. Abbo died in 937.

source

• Flodoard of Reims , Historia Remensis ecclesiae IV 20.

literature

• U. Rouziès: subscription 9 . In: Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques , Vol. 1 (1912), Col. 49.
• R. Poupardin: Abbon 10 . In: Dictionnaire de Biographie française . Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 82.

predecessor	Office	successor
Rodoin	Bishop of Soissons 909–937	Guido of Anjou