Adolf I. (Becoming)

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Adolf I († December 21, 1173 ) was Abbot of Werden from 1160 to 1173 .

Life

It is said to come from the house of the Counts of Altena, a branch line of the Counts of Berg . His father was Adolf II von Berg.

Before his election he was probably cantor in Werden. In a document from 1150, an Adolfus cantor appears as a witness.

In 1167 he took part in Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa's procession to Rome . He served the emperor in Rome as a witness in a document. Otherwise, relatively little has survived from his time. It is known that he was in 1166 together with Everhard von Altena as Vogt von Werden and many clerics and ministerials in Cologne. It was about a judgment by Archbishop Rainald von Dassel between the monastery of St. Maria ad Gradus and some villages. Two documents have survived from 1165. He seems to have founded the feast of the finding of the cross in Werden , as is evident from later traditions. Also in 1173 he could be found in Goslar near the emperor. He is named as a witness in an imperial certificate of confirmation of a contract between the diocese of Münster and the Counts of Tecklenburg. Most traditions mention December 21st as the day of death. Only the necrology of the Abdinghof monastery mentions December 22nd.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RI IV, 2,3 n.2026, in: Regesta Imperii online version (accessed April 5, 2014).

literature

  • Wilhelm Stüwer: The imperial abbey in the Ruhr (= Germania Sacra . New episode 12: The dioceses of the church province of Cologne. The archbishopric of Cologne. 3). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1980, ISBN 3-11-007877-5 , pp. 146, 317 f., ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Adolf I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Werden (1160–1173)
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1173