Alim (bishop)

Coat of arms of the diocese of Brixen according to Siebmacher's book of arms

Alim († 800 ) is proven in the 8th century as bishop of Säben . His ancestry is not known, an Irish-Scottish or Anglo-Saxon origin is suspected (possibly in the wake of Boniface ), but cannot be proven with certainty. During his pontificate in 798, Säben was separated from the ecclesiastical province of Aquileia and placed under the Bavarian archbishopric of Salzburg .

Alim appears several times as a documentary witness in the vicinity of Tassilo III. So in 769 when the Innichen Abbey was founded ( campo Gelau ) or in 770 as a participant in the Synod of Dingolfing (770) . He is also present in Freising on September 26, 770, when the priest Oadalger hands over his possessions in loco nuncupante Poh and in alium locum ripa Clanis flumina ( Glonn ) to the Freising Church . After Duke Tassilo, Alim appears in the document as the first of the witnesses before the Heres episcopi (meaning the donated Arbeo von Freising ) and the Bishop Virgil von Salzburg . The ranking is important because it also expresses the order of consecration as bishop; since he is mentioned before Virgil, who was consecrated on June 15, 749, his investiture as bishop is to be set earlier. Alim may also have accompanied the king's mother Bertrada part of the way to Italy in 770 , where she picked up a daughter of King Desiderius , whom she married to her son Karl .

In 781, Tassilo III, his wife Liutberga and his son Theodo sent an embassy under the direction of Bishop Alim von Säben and Count Megilo and Machelm to Pope Hadrian I in Rome to deal with the emerging conflict between Charlemagne and Tassilo III . to settle. Charlemagne only allowed Alim von Säben and Atto , then Abbot von Schlehdorf , to travel on; the embassy could ultimately achieve nothing. In 784, Alim was named in the Salzburg fraternity book as the first in the line of living bishops.

In a letter written in April 798, Pope Leo III. informs the bishops of the provincia Baiovuariorum that at their request and with the consent of Charlemagne ( cum consensu et voluntate ) he elevated Arn of Salzburg to archbishopric and made their dioceses subordinate to him; here Alim von Säben ( Alim ecclesiæ Sabionensis ) is named as the first addressee. At the Reisbach Metropolitan Synod convened immediately afterwards in 799 under Arns chairmanship , Alim was named in the first place as Almon Sabonensis episcopus . Two letters from Alkuin , Abbot of St. Martin in Tours , to Arn von Salzburg date from 800 , in which he asks him to greet caritate patremque nostrum Alimum episcopum (or patrem carissimum Aelim episcopum ). After that the mentions of Alim are lost.

literature

Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger , p. 156. (= monographs on the history of the Middle Ages). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991. ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 .
Josef Riedmann : Brixen . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 2, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-7608-8902-6 , column 704 f.

Web links

Didier F. Isel: ALIM, Bishop of Säben. In: Prosopography of secular and ecclesiastical ministers and other important persons from 741 to 768. Retrieved on July 4, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ Franz Anton Sinnacher: Brief News from the Church of Säben and Brixen, Volume 1. 1820, accessed on July 1, 2019 .
↑ Oswald Redlich : On the history of the bishops of Brixen from the 10th to the 12th century (907–1125). (PDF) Ferdinandeum , magazine for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. III. Episode, issue 28. 1884, p. 3 , accessed on July 1, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 397.
↑ Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 524.
↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 43–44, No. 65 .
↑ Martin Bitschnau, Hannes Obermair: Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 44–45, no. 66 .
↑ Martin Bitschnau, Hannes Obermair: Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 47 ff., No. 69 and 71 .

personal data
SURNAME	Alim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Alim; Alienus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Säben
DATE OF BIRTH	8th century
DATE OF DEATH	800
Place of death	Sawing

[1] Franz Anton Sinnacher: Brief News from the Church of Säben and Brixen, Volume 1. 1820, accessed on July 1, 2019 .

[2] Oswald Redlich : On the history of the bishops of Brixen from the 10th to the 12th century (907–1125). (PDF) Ferdinandeum , magazine for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. III. Episode, issue 28. 1884, p. 3 , accessed on July 1, 2019 .

[jjahn-3] Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 397.

[4] Joachim Jahn, 1991, p. 524.

[5] Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 43–44, No. 65 .

[6] Martin Bitschnau, Hannes Obermair: Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 44–45, no. 66 .

[7] Martin Bitschnau, Hannes Obermair: Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Volume 1: By the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 47 ff., No. 69 and 71 .