Agiulf

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the ruler of the Suebi see Agiulf (warning) .

Agiulf , also Evilpus († January 27, 894 ) was bishop in Halberstadt from 886 to 894 .

Name and origin are unclear. The spellings Evilphus, Ewilpus, Ejulphus, Ejulfus, Egolphus, Enilpus, Enolphus, Ennopus, Eginolfus, Egelulphus, Eriulpus and Emundus have been handed down for the name. After the Liudgeriden, Agiulf was the first bishop of Halberstadt who did not come from the Werden monastery or at least presided over it as abbot , even if the similarity to the Frisian -seeming name of the Werden abbot Andulph (887-888) is obvious. After an entry in the Annalista Saxo for the year 886, Eiulf was instead a monk in the Hersfeld monastery . In contrast, a message from Chronicon Corbeiense for the year 889, according to which Agiulf Mönch was in Corvey , is incorrect. This work is a forgery by Christian Franz Paullini on behalf of the Corvey Monastery.

In 886, Charlemagne called Agiulf bishop of Halberstadt. The proximity to the ruler was likely to have been decisive for the appointment. Because before his appointment as bishop, Agiulf is said to have taught the illegitimate son of Charles the Fat, Bernhard, as a teacher. The Halberstadt cathedral chapter was only granted the right to freely elect a bishop under his successor Sigimund . Little is known about Agiulf's spiritual and worldly work. The files of the Synod of Forchheim in 890 record his presence under the name Agiulfus, but without the title of bishop. An emundus is listed among the participants in the Synod of Trebur 894.

Agiulf probably died on January 27th, 894. For this year the Fuldaer Totenannalen record the death of an Egolf episcopus . Albert Hauck determined the date from an entry in the Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium .

In this episcopal chronicle from the time after 1209, Agiulf is characterized as a "sincere and unselfish man" ( vir simplex et innocens ). Contemporary news is missing. Against this background, Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling described Agiulf in his biographical reference work The German Bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century in 1858 as a bishop "about whom not the slightest can be reported with certainty."

swell

• Ludwig Weiland (Ed.): Gesta episcoporum Halberstadensium. (= MGH SS 23), Hahn, Hannover 1874, pp. 73–123 ( digitized version )

literature

• Raphaela Averkorn: The bishops of Halberstadt in their ecclesiastical and political work and in their relationships with the city from the beginning to the Reformation. In: Dieter Berg (Hrsg.): Citizens, mendicants and bishops in Halberstadt (= Saxonia Franciscana. 9). Dietrich-Coelde, Werl 1997, ISBN 3-87163-224-4 , pp. 1-79.

Remarks

1. ↑ Hedwig Röckelein : Halberstadt, Helmstedt and the Liudgeriden. In: Jan Gerchow (Ed.): The millennium of the monks. Köln, Wienand 1999, pp. 65–73, here p. 68, Agiulf is no longer one of the Liudgerids. ( PDF )
2. ↑ Annalista Saxo a. A. 886
3. ^ Albert Hauck: Church history of Germany. Volume 2: The Franconian Church as an Imperial Church. 2nd Edition. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1900, p. 785.
4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops up to the end of the sixteenth century. Wigand, Leipzig 1858, p. 445.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildegrim II	Bishop of Halberstadt 886–894	Sigimund of Halberstadt