Angilram of Metz

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Angilram († October 26, 791 ) was Bishop of Metz .

Angilram belonged to a noble family who had chosen him early for the clergy. After enjoying the lessons of the monk Nargaudus in Gorze , he first entered St. Avold and then the Vosges monastery Séerne as a monk. When he became abbot here , whether before or after his elevation to the bishopric of Metz, cannot be said with certainty: it is certain that, because of his other professional duties, he later left the abbey to a Norgandus (Norgaudus), perhaps his youth teacher.

In Metz, after more than two and a half years of vacancy , he succeeded Chrodegang , who died on March 6, 766, initially only with an episcopal title, which he demonstrably still held in 777, but probably also at the end of 782; since 787, however, like his predecessor, he has been in possession of archbishopric dignity. Perhaps this promotion is related to another that must have happened at the same time. In the year 784, Abbot Fulrad of St. Denis, the long-time chaplain of Kings Pippin and Karl , died and Angilram now took over this important palace and state office, which not only took care of religious services at court, but also all ecclesiastical affairs of the empire, so far they were brought to the royal court, entrusted to his care. Pope Hadrian I dispensed therefore him to Charlemagne explicit request, so Angilram could take his permanent residence in the area of the King of the episcopal residence obligation.

But he still turned his attention to the diocese entrusted to him, the canons of the city, as a modification of the Chrodegang statute shows us, the monasteries by negotiating an exchange of goods with Toul for Gorze in 788 , in St. Avold under royal ones Aid began to decorate the tomb of St. Nabor . Paulus the deacon wrote his Metz episcopal history at Angilram's request, as did Donatus the life of Trudo, the saint of St. Trou; the latter describes him on this occasion as his teacher. Thus we recognize in Angilram at the same time a worthy member of that scientific circle which surrounded Charlemagne, whose most outstanding member, Alcuin , paid him warm admiration, but from all of his comrades he differed in his advanced age and especially in his high official position. As a result, his relations with the king were predominantly practical and political; It was an expression of the greatest confidence that Karl, immediately after the elimination of Tassilo (788), placed a monastery in the newly acquired Baier land, Chiemsee , under the direction and supervision of the diocese of Metz , despite the great distance . In the year 791, Angilram accompanied the king to war, as he certainly has often done elsewhere: we only find out about this in this one case because he was killed at that time - it was a train against the Avars .

Without question, Angilram's lively and influential relationship with Charles half a century later gave rise to misusing his name into a canonical fiction that made him better known than anything he actually was and did. The so-called " Capitula Angilramni " namely, a small collection of principles about the judicial procedure against bishops, are for the most part drawn from the collection of capitularies of Benedictus Levita , which was not completed before 847 , so they do not have Angilram, but very likely the author of the pseudo-Isidoric decretals as well to its author, and its origin, like that of that great forgery, falls between 847 and 853. If its inscription says that Angilram had the chapters from the hands of Pope Hadrian in Rome on September 19, 785, as his cause had been negotiated, it was invented, in spite of all the accuracy of its statement, like the whole of scripture. In the case of Pseudoisidor, there is often enough an equally exact and equally fictitious date; But Pope Hadrian and Angilram, the famous chaplain of Charlemagne, were intertwined in poetry to increase the authority of the work in a very similar way as Charlemagne himself and his Chancellor Erchambald with the likewise pseudo-Isidoric fourth addition of Benedict's Capitularies have been linked.

The Capitula Angilramni have now been edited and translated into German.

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  1. ↑ Karl-Georg Schon, The Capitula Angilramni. A procedural forgery of pseudoisidors , Hanover 2006 (MGH Studies and Texts 39)
predecessor Office successor
Chrodegang Bishop of Metz
768–791 		Gondulf
personal data
SURNAME Angilram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Metz
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 791