Adalgar
Adalgar , also Adalger , Old High German: noble spear or fighter , († May 9, 909 in Bremen ) was a saint and archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg .
biography
Adalgar was brother of the eponymous later abbot of Corvey Adalgar ; they came from a Saxon noble family. Like him, he first lived as a monk in the Benedictine monastery Corvey on the Weser , where he met the archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg, Rimbert . Adalgar became Rimbert's assistant and followed him to Bremen. He was initially Rimbert's coadjutor and succeeded Rimbert as Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen after his death. In this office he pushed missionary activity in the north, but was hindered by the invasions of the Normans . During his reign in 895 at the Imperial Synod in Tribur, the Archdiocese of Bremen was demoted to an ordinary diocese by Hermann von Cologne and placed under the direction of the Archdiocese of Cologne . Adalgar then sought to re-establish the archbishopric and was finally able to secure the independence of his diocese. Adalgar died on May 9, 909 in Bremen.
The feast day of St. Adalgar is May 9th (the day of his death). He is represented in art as an archbishop with a pallium .
literature
- Erhard Gorys: Lexicon of the saints . Munich June 2005, p. 17 .
- Otto Heinrich May: Adalgar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 48 ( digitized version ).
- Adalgar . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 19 . Altenburg 1865, p. 786 ( zeno.org ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : ADALGAR. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 28.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Rimbert |
Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen 888–909 |
Hoger |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Adalgar |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen (888–909) |
DATE OF BIRTH | 9th century |
DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 909 |
Place of death | Bremen |