Arnulf von Halberstadt

Arnulf , also Arnolf , Arnold or Harnoldus († September 7, 1023 in Halberstadt ) was Bishop of Halberstadt from 996 until his death.

Life

Origin and early years

Arnulf came from a noble Saxon family and was possibly trained in the Fulda monastery . He was Kapellan of Emperor Otto III.

Church work

Arnulf was after the death of Bishop Hildiwards († November 25, 996) as his successor because of the disagreement of the election committee of Otto III. used. The previous bishops had hindered the reorganization of church politics in connection with the establishment of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg , while Arnulf was considered a reliable partisan of Otto.

Arnulf consecrated the church in Quedlinburg and the nunnery in Walbeck, also donated by Mathilde, on behalf of Abbess Mathilde von Quedlinburg as diocesan bishop . On September 9, 999 benedizierte he desired Otto III. his sister Adelheid to the abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey .

A letter has been received from Arnulf, which he wrote to Bishop Heinrich I of Würzburg before May 7, 1008 in order to gain his approval for the establishment of the diocese of Bamberg . The letter is one of the most important sources for the establishment of the Bamberg diocese, and it also deals with the right of resistance from the perspective of the Middle Ages. “Arnulf limits the right of resistance to the case of temptation to sin. One owes obedience to the ungodly king as well. "

Imperial politics

According to the Lüneburg necrology , Count Hermann, who in 985 played a decisive role in bringing about the settlement with Heinrich the Quarrel , was a brother of Arnulf.

In the course of the second Italian campaign, Bishop Arnulf appeared at the emperor in Rome between 997 and the beginning of December 999.

In 1002, Arnulf supported Margrave Ekkehard von Meissen's candidacy for the throne together with Bernhard I from Billung and Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim .

Arnulf enjoyed such a reputation with King Heinrich II that the insubordinate Margrave Gunzelin von Meissen was handed over to him for imprisonment.

Arnulf also participated in the peace treaty in Bautzen with Bolesław Chrobry of Poland on January 30, 1018.

Death and burial

Arnulf died on September 7th 1023. The date of death is fixed by the tradition in the Lüneburg necrology and other sources, an older opinion, according to which it should be July 28th 1023, was probably based on a reading error. He was buried in front of the door to the cloister of Halberstadt Cathedral . In 1372 the bones were reburied in the center of the choir, where they were found again in an archaeological dig in 1899. The grave slab has been missing since around 1812.

Preserved works

• Letter to Bishop Heinrich I of Würzburg, ed. by Ph. Jaffé. In: Monumenta Bambergensia (= Bibl. Rerum Germanicarum, Vol. 5). 1869, pp. 472-79.

Web links

• Inscriptions on the tombstone for Bishop Arnulf. In: Academy of Sciences in Göttingen a . a. (Ed.): German inscriptions online. The inscriptions of the German-speaking area in the Middle Ages and early modern times. Saxony-Anhalt / City of Halberstadt.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gerd Althoff: Noble and royal families in the mirror of their memorial tradition. Studies on the commemoration of the dead of the Billunger and Ottonians. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1984, p. 321
2. ↑ Knut Görich: Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, pp. 169-171
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Helmut Beumann:  Arnolf (Arnulf, Arnold). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 393 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Knut Görich: Otto III. Romanus Saxonicus et Italicus. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, p. 142
5. ^ Albrecht Graf Finck von Finckenstein: Bishop and Empire. Investigations into the integration process of the Ottonian-Early Salian Empire (919-1056). Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1989
6. ↑ See the grave inscriptions under web links

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildeward	Bishop of Halberstadt 996-1023	Branthog