Alverich (Brandenburg)

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Alverich (also Alberich , Latin Alvericus ; † after 1231 ) was Provost of Brandenburg .

Life

In 1213 he was named as canon in Magdeburg . At the end of 1216 or on June 18, 1217 he became the new Provost of Brandenburg as the successor to his brother Siegfried , who had recently become bishop. At that time Alverich was a novice in the Cistercian monastery in Lehnin . Around 1224 he was sent with the bishop to the Ilsenburg monastery as papal executor . During his time, the canon Heinrich von Antwerp is said to have written the Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg.

Alverich was last named as Provost of the Cathedral in 1230 and retired to Lehnin Monastery in 1231, where he died at an unknown time.

literature

  • Gustav Abb , Gottfried Wentz : The Diocese of Brandenburg. Part 1. (= Germania sacra. I. Department: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg. 3). Berlin and Leipzig 1929. p. 115. ( PDF )
  • Christina Meckelnborg : Tractatus de urbe Brandenburg. The oldest evidence of Brandenburg history. Text analysis and edition. (= Writings of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg, New Series Vol. 7). Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86732-215-7 . P. 57f.
  • Stephan Warnatsch: History of the Lehnin Monastery 1180–1542. (= Studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians. Volume 12.1, 2.) Lukas, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-931836-45-2 . P. 559 and others

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottfried Wentz , Berent Schwineköper : The cathedral monastery St. Moritz in Magdeburg. (= Germania Sacra . The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Magdeburg. The archbishopric of Magdeburg. Volume 1, part 1.) Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-001811-X . P. 469. ( pdf )
  2. ↑ Chronicon Montis Sereni , in: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in folio) 23: Chronica aevi Suevici. Hanover 1874 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) p. 217f.
personal data
SURNAME Alverich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alberich; Alvericus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Provost of Brandenburg (1216 to 1231)
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH after 1231