Adalgar

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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

predecessor Office successor
Rimbert Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
888–909 		Hoger
personal data
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